Inuit

Canada has a long history. Its history is an immigration history. Since ancient times, people had been moving and migrating to Canada and living here.British had the biggest impact on Canadian history. British formed HBC and monopolized the fur trade, this made a lot of European move to Canada. Also, British built churches and schools in North America to change first nations’ way to life. With the formation of the colonies, the government introduced many policies to change the political policy…

Sacred Heart Church of First People in Edmonton is a unique Catholic Church because its members are a mixture of First Nations, Inuit and Metis, homeless or fortunate, that belongs in a family and are able to participate in the Catholic sacraments. The church’s strong spirit is evident as they claim that they are governed by their culture, not by landscape like the others. What stood out to me was the elements inside the Church that is a combination of both the Aboriginal Culture and…

accumulation that presents a risk to health”. Serious diseases such as hypertension, cancer, heart diseases, diabetes, and gall bladder diseases are diseases linked to obesity (WebMD, 2014). In Canada, Aboriginal people such as the First Nations, Inuits and Metis, have a higher rate of obesity compared to non-aboriginal ancestry. Based on study conducted by Statistic Canada (2009) among inactive Aboriginals and non-Aboriginal people, about 50% of the aboriginal people were identified obese…

The first time I saw Jaws was a life-changing experience. I stopped taking baths (and I don't think I am the only one). So, when I found out about a man who has found (and continues to find) new sharks, I jumped in….to the story, not the ocean. Apparently, Dave Ebert travels to Taiwan because of a certain fish market. That market has dished him at least 10 new sharks, not yet documented. However, what’s really weird to me is that sharks have been around way longer than crocodilians. They have…

The interpretation and appropriation of culture within museums came under attack starting in the 1960’s. Native American groups raised questions about the biases and agendas of curators and museums and demanded that their voices be heard in the political arena. Many groups such as _______________ argued that White people were able to tell their cultural stories in museums with limited outside interference from other ethnic groups. However, in museums where Native American people and material…

reexamine contemporary historical beliefs. Mann’s 1491 is a social demonstration, utilizing modern theories to explain pre-Columbian societies. Furthermore, 1491 is a journalistic representation of Mesoamerica and the Aztecs, Inka, Maya, and other Inuit communities of the Americas. Mann’s re-evaluation on the teaching of history is embodied through an overenthusiastic and exaggeration of the complete story. Through this, the reader can gather, from the three-parts, that there is a specific…

In 2014, 1 percent of people in America identified themselves as vegans and vegetarians, it has significantly increased since then and is at 6 percent in 2017. Over the past couple of years, more and more people are adopting the vegan and vegetarian diets and thus brings out the question whether these diets are actually beneficial for human health or just a lie. Ever since the start of plant based diets hundreds of years ago, it has always been referred to as a more nutritious and healthy…

The New Sun conference was interesting to me for a variety of reason, the most important of which was that it humanised issues that in my personal experience I have only heard in passing. It gave these issues of cultural appropriation and identity struggle a human face. It is so easy in this world to ignore harsh truths that do not directly affect your own experience, but this conference shone a light on those truths. Alethea Arnquq-Baril’s presentation her passion for storytelling through film…

attention, including: the natural sciences, geography, history and culture. After earning a Ph.D. in physics and a brief stint in the military Boas began a yearlong scientific expedition to Baffin Island in northern Canada to collect ethnographic data on Inuit culture. This expedition rooted Boas into the field of anthropology and his later work granted him the title of “father of American anthropology”. This title is aptly fitting due to the fact that Boas founded the relativistic,…

groups are well represented in health research, which can lead to misrepresentation and bias among the author’s findings (p.76). Aboriginal health studies predominantly document First Nations people, specifically those residing on reserves, and the Inuit residing in the northern territories (p. 75). There is a lack of sufficient data on non-status Indians and Métis, particularly those residing in urban areas. Attempts have been made, such as conducting large national…