Causes Of Food Security By First Nations Metis And Inuits

The Aboriginal peoples of Canada had gone through many situations to get to where they are today with their education system. Pain, sorrow, doubt, and hope are all feelings brought to mind when thinking about the history and the future of Aboriginal education. By taking a look at the past, anyone can see that the right to education for Aboriginal peoples has been fought about as early as the 1870s. This is still is a pressing issue today. Elder teachings, residential, reserve and post-secondary schools have all been concerning events of the past as well as the present. Though education has improved for the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, there are still many concerns and needs of reconciliation for the past to improve the future.

What might explain these statistics, or at least serve as correlations, are the determinants of health. If the reader is not familiar with the determinants of health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) provides an explanation of them. In essence, these health determinants are factors that have significant impact upon one’s health. The main determinants for health are: socioeconomic status, where the rich and upper classes tend to be healthier; education, where low education is linked to stress, lower self-esteem and poorer health choices; environment, where purer air, cleaner water, healthier workplaces and better housing contribute to being healthier; health services, where access to services and proper equipment all contribute to health; as well as gender, genetics, culture and social behaviour (WHO, 2016). As there are so health determinants, where essays can be written on one alone, it is not within the scope of this essay to critically analyse each determinant for Indigenous Australians. With this in mind, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) documents an extensive list of data for Indigenous health, most of which discusses issues which are out-of-scope for this analysis. What is relevant, however, is outlined next. Across the board, in 2011, the Indigenous population was younger than the non-Indigenous population due to high fertility and mortality rates with those

Colonialism has contributed to multiple issues in the lives of Aboriginal people including inadequate housing and clean resources on Aboriginal reserves. One significant outcome is health problems reserve residents face, including a lower life expectancy and higher mortality rate. “For Aboriginal men on reserve, life expectancy is 67.1 years, while off reserve it’s 72. 1, compared to 76 years for the general population of Canada. For Aboriginal women, it is 73.1, 77.7, and 81.5 respectively” (Frohlich et al. 134). Additionally, more than 50% of off reserve Aboriginal people have at least one chronic condition (Frohlich et al.). Reserves stem from the colonial era, where Aboriginal people were displaced by the government and are a continuous symbol of oppression.

Concerns of violent victimization and self-destructive tendencies in Aboriginal communities have become a significant issue in Aboriginal movements worldwide. In Canada, it has taken the specific form of feminist-inspired campaigns for only those Indigenous females that are missing and murdered. The highly vocalized 2015 campaign for the 42nd Canadian Federal Election drew much attention to the fate of missing and murdered Indigenous women. However, the attention on females suggests that the inherent implication that Indigenous men’s attitudes toward Indigenous women are the problem and that the men are not victims of violence themselves. This essay will first acknowledge the chronic problem of violence in the place of Indigenous peoples in first world societies and the continuing social problems that marginalize their position. This paper will then examine the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, the violence in their communities, and whether or not Indigenous men and their masculinities have an appropriate place in the national picture regarding the missing and murdered Indigenous women. I will conclude with a consideration of the extent to which if men do have an appropriate place in the inquiry and which policy recommendations are required to address the issues that Aboriginal people confront.

Around the globe in countries from Australia and New Zealand to South American and North America there is a disparity in the quality of healthcare and life that indigenous people receive compared to their non-indigenous counterparts (Ring & Brown, 2003). Life expectancy for Aboriginals, the indigenous people of Australia is 19-21 years less than non-indigenous life expectancy; 5-7 years for the Maori population in New Zealand; and 5-7 years less for Native Americans in Canada (Ring and Brown, 2003). In the United States American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) live, on average, 4.2 years less than the rest of the population (Indian Health Disparities, 2015).

For many of years animal activists have been trying to put a stop to all animal hunting, abuse, using animals for supplies. The problem with doing this is that it may effect a large amount of people who live off of these animals, in particularly the seal. The Canadian Inuit is a large group of people about 46,000 people as an estimation, that use seals as a multi source. The Canadian Inuit use the seal for a source of cash through fur sales, they used the seal for meat, and once used seal for oil lamps. In 1980 animal rights activists got their way and made it so that seal hunting was no longer legal. This affected thousands of Canadian Inuit who lived in small arctic hamlets who lived off of seal. The question is who is better off the Canadian Inuit, or the animals rights activists?

Poverty plays a huge role on why there is a large percent difference in perception of health. Due to the poverty gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, it becomes obvious why Aboriginals tend to suffer from higher amounts of chronic diseases and health-risk behaviours. In terms of income, Statistics

Over the years, the Native Americans have learned to adapt to the different climates and tried to survive in strange lands. Today, research suggests that poverty, crime, and the health care system on Indian reservations are the reasons why Native Americans are at higher risks for diseases, cancer, and even death. Poverty on the Native American reservations is constantly increasing due to unemployment. The high

The Canadian health system aims to provide equal health for all and although in recent years, general healthcare services to Aboriginal peoples have improved, Aboriginal peoples still experience poorer health outcomes than non-Aboriginal Canadians (Kowpak & Gillis, 2015). The health challenges faced by Canadian Aboriginal peoples are unique and complex (Richardson, Driedger, Pizzi, Wu, & Moghadas, 2012), especially as an outsider therefore the need to understand Aboriginal health from their perspective. Hence, in community and population health profession, knowledge of Aboriginal health increases the understanding of the underlying causes of health disparity and poor health among Aboriginal peoples. Aboriginal health knowledge is beneficial

In Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, for example, there is no year-round road access to this Native community contributing to an exaggerated cost of living and a low standard delivery of services essential to survival such as healthcare, education and community infrastructure. This seems to be the case in many Aboriginal societies. This highlights the gap between today’s modern society, and that of a Native culture—that there remains a general lack of help from a modern government in order to aid their lives. It is estimated that one in five Indigenous Canadians live in run-down and often overcrowded mould-infested homes, unsafe drinking water and a suicide rate five times greater than the national average. These extreme situations drives one to ask: why does this ‘third world’ exist in a country that consistently boasts about its abundance; why has Canada’s government chosen the path to politically, culturally and economically frighten these Aboriginal communities?

There is also an important recognition to be made between living conditions of those 26.6% of Aboriginal People’s living on reserves, and those 73.4% that are living off reserves (SOHC 34). The appalling inadequacies of the already limited on-reserve housing, such as lack of electricity, clean water, sanitation, safety, and extreme overcrowding force many to seek better lives in urban areas. Many, upon arrival, then have to face extreme discrimination via cultural oppression stemming from historical processes, economic causes and political neglect (Patrick 19). Through this naturalized racism stemming way into the colonial era, Aboriginal Peoples in these urban areas face obscene housing and economic discrimination (Patrick 22). This all results in Aboriginal Peoples in urban centers being 8 times more likely to experience homelessness than non-Aboriginals.

When Europeans started visiting today’s Canada they saw aboriginals as an asset to them. They relied on the indigenous peoples for directions, food, fur, and to support their militaries. The Europeans started to settle on this new found country and were relying less and less on the Aboriginals. These settlers were making Canada their home and the Indians were seen as a burden when the fur trade stopped. The settlers, being more civilized, saw these First Nations peoples as savages and started pushing them away onto given land known as reservations with hopes that they could farm the land and sustain themselves. At this time, the indigenous population was decreasing due to a change in diet (since they were pushed away from their usual food

The First Nations peoples of Canada’s right to self-govern has been a widely debated and highly controversial topic since the British North America Act in 1867, when the Canadian government gained the authority to negotiate treaties with the First Nations and purchase their land. First Nations people believe that they have an inherent right to self-govern, as they were the sole inhibitors of Canada before the Europeans made contact in the 1500’s. Before colonization, the aboriginals had formed their own communities, each with it’s own culture, customs and laws; they occupied their own land and had chiefs to govern their people. In 1876, the government of Canada passed the Indian Act, a legislation which defined who is and isn’t

First Nations people suffer from poor health and are devastated by problems such as alcoholism, domestic abuse, violence and suicide.

With individual cultures living in one country, one cultural group leaves polar-opposite from the rest. When further looking at the ways of living between the indigenous groups and non-indigenous groups show that the descendants of the first people in Canada are experiencing a time that matches the lifestyle of a Third World Nation. Some examples of the major house impairments needed are 25.9% for First Nations and 6.8% for non-indigenous that alone shows a 19.1% difference in housing. When looking at the young people who have received a post-secondary diploma, degree or certificate, the Inuits have a percentage of 35.6% and 64.7% for Non-Indigenous Canadians. Smoking has always been a large reason for health problems, then the population of