Eve Tuck And An Author From Pine Ridge

Unique traditions, language, beliefs and values all comprise Indigenous culture. It is critical that a meaningful appreciation of their culture

Imagine a normal day. You wake up, you get ready, you probably see your mom, wife or sister. You say goodbye and head on your way. Once home, you sit down with them and talk about your day. When sad they comfort you, they love, support, care for you. Now imagine you wake up one day and they have disappeared without a trace. Gone. You are heartbroken. This is a sad reality for many Indigenous families, many women are vanishing without a trace. Between 1200-4000 Indigenous women have been missing or murdered in the last 30 years. These women are often targeted and treated as being worthless leading to little support from police and the public. After being immersed into this issue I learned lots, but I was left feeling sad,

I am writing you today as a young woman concerning the lack of attention towards the violence against women in retrospect to the Native American population. The fear of being a victim of assault as a young women is prominent within the society in which we live today. However, there is some relief in the fact that there are resources available at my disposal if I was to experience assault. Yet, there is a large portion of women that do not have that reassurance, and the likelihood of them experiencing assault is even greater than my own. This portion of the women population is Native American women. I will admit that the severity of the issue in concerns with the native population is something that I just recently became aware of. et I have

“However, Aboriginal people still struggle for more than words on paper. They require the enactment of visible justice, where aboriginal people have a pride of place and heritage that can be shared as well as respected.” (king, 2010, p.216).

“Structural inequities produces suffering and death as often as direct violence does, though the damage is slower, more subtle, more common and more difficult to repair” (Indigenous politics, 2005). The overt difference in health between aboriginal and non-aboriginal

Indigenous people went through a lot from white brutality, alcoholism, the killing and driving off of game, and the expropriation of farmland, but all of these things added together explained the degree of their defeat.

experience and knowledge of indigenous peoples and their various ways of life. He explains the

Since 1961 indigenous people have faced many historic issues. Many of the historic problems was an effort to destroy their cultures and change the way of their life, for example the residential schools. Thankfully many indigenous people are still living after all the harm that has taken place and we are continuing to make an effort for

Gabriel, along with other speakers at the march, highlighted Canada’s colonial past for how indigenous people have gotten trapped in this cycle of oppression. Colonization involves the process of “othering”; that is, centering Eurocentric ideas and people at the top of the hierarchy. From the inception of Canada, ingenious women were “othered” and viewed as an extension of the land, to be colonized, dehumanized, and fetishized by the colonizers (Alexander M.J. et all, 39; Native Women’s Association, “Root Cause” 3). This attitude has been passed down for generations and compacted with the lasting effects of the 60s scoop and residential schools have left indigenous communities, especially women, vulnerable by disrupting their values, roles, and traditions (Native Women’s Association, “Root Cause”

Joseph Boyden’s novel, Three Day Road tells the story of two Indigenous men named Xavier and Elijah, in the Canadian army in World War II and how their time in it, comes to affect their identities and the rest of their lives. Boyden uses the fates of Xavier and Elijah, their aunt, Niska and Niska’s sister, Rabbit in the face of colonialism to demonstrate the important role of resilience in First Nations culture. Using the chapter entitled, “Kipwahakan (Captive),” where Niska tells Xavier the story of her leaving Residential School, my points are reinforced in the reading on “The Residential School System” found at the Indigenous Foundations. The writer theorizes, that one of the reasons for the discrepancy of cultural attachment within the

In this article, Borrows explores Indigenous-Canadian treaties, governmental relations, and self-government to argue the complexity of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and its need to be addressed on multiple levels. He deconstructs colonial racism and sexism to link it to the enduring issues faced by Indigenous communities. He reasons that government and Indigenous issues are inherently linked through his dissection of historical connections. Borrows also cites the difference between Canadian and US governmental treatment of Indigenous

Second Slide: The ways in which Indigenous Women tried to resist, but were ultimately victims of colonization, and how heteropatriarchy has affected them.

In this paper, I chose Toward the 8th fire: The view from Oshkimaadziig Unity Camp by Karl Gardner and Richard Peters (Giibwanisi), Speaking truth to power: Indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance by Aman Sium and Eric Ritskes and Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women’s love and rage by Rachel Flowers, as the academic papers to use in this assignment. The similarities, differences and whether I agree with these articles will be discussed in this paper. My response to how Canada should decolonized will be discussed as well.

We discussed how the narrative of dysfunction used to characterise Indigenous people and justify continued paternalistic colonial intervention. A narrative that conveniently ignores the conditions which led to the current situation, in which Indigenous communities display a high incidence of poverty and social dysfunction. Another quote I found on the forum states that “We (Canada) are the ones who have driven Indigenous peoples to have some of the highest numbers of incarceration, homelessness, substance abuse, high suicide rates” (Nestor, 2017). These conditions include the loss of land and sovereignty, generations of brutal violence and oppression, denial of access to sacred lands. Also, destruction of traditional economies and ways of life, and the legacy of forced assimilation, abuse and alienation from culture, language and history. All part of the genocidal war waged on Indigenous people by settler colonists.

Each individual makes up the society as it is, and various characteristics and beliefs makes up an individual. Although, individual lives together with a variety of personal ideologies, emotions, cultures, and rituals, they all differentiate one person from the other making up one’s own identity. This identity makes up who one is inside and out, their behaviour, actions, and words comes from their own practices and values. However, the profound history of Indigenous people raises question in the present about their identities. Who are they really? Do we as the non-native people judge them from the outside or the inside? Regardless of whether the society or the government were involved in their lives, they faced discrimination in every