Summary and Reflection of Club Native

The Indian Act was a challenge by the Canadian government to adjust the aboriginals into the Canadian culture including bring in residential schools, separating every First Nations in trying to “improve”, and practice them for standard society (Emberley, 2009). First Nations people were also not allowed to possess any land or offer the land that used to be theirs before the Indian act as this segregation put limits maintaining or even owning anything (Emberley, 2009). This lead to the point on everything being restricted for the First Nations including losing history, practicing

Two sections of the Indian Act are particularly discriminatory against Indigenous women. Section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act states that women who marry outside of their band were to lose status, seize association with their own community, they lose ownership over any property located on the reserve and any property inherited that is located on the reserve land (Lawrence 2004: Jamieson 1978). These women would also lose access to any rights they had with status, including taking part in any band business or voting (Lawrence 2004: Jamieson 1978). Any children born to a woman who married outside her community would not be granted status or considered “Indian” in the eyes of the government and this woman and her children may be prohibited from returning to live with her family regardless of illness, need, divorce, death of her husband or separation (Jamieson 1978). Finally, through this section of the Indian act, upon marriage of an “outsider” an Indigenous woman loses her right to be buried on her reserve land with her ancestors (Jamieson 1978). Section 12(1)(a)(iv) also known as the “double mother clause” states that an “Indian born of a marriage entered into after September 4th, 1952 lost entitlement to registration at the age of 21 years if his/her mother and paternal grandmother were not entitled to registration as Indians before marriages” (Sterritt 2007).

For several hundreds of years, Aboriginals have been impacted by the Indian Act in many ways. They have dealt with numerous challenges that have changed their lives forever. Laws were created by the Canadian government with the purpose of controlling Natives and assimilating them into Canadian culture.For multiple years,

This rhetorical analysis will define the ethos and pathos in “Allowing the Mind to Wander” by Carole Giangrande. The importance of this article rests on an emotional plea, which provides the reader with a call for justice to the plight of indigenous people in Canadian society. This rhetorical device is part of the pathos of Giangrande’s (1990) article that evokes sadness and pity in the way that white Canadian society has alienated and marginalized the First Peoples. More so, the ethos of the article reveals the problem of an apathetic society that has lost the spirit of the 1960s Civil Rights era, which is desperately needed in the 21st century. The loss of cultural respect for the First Peoples reveals the problem of a white hegemonic society as part of a modern trend in political activism. Giangrande (1990) presents these rhetorical devices to show the loss of moral and civic activism to defend the indigenous peoples of Canada. In essence, this rhetorical analysis will define the importance of pathos and ethos in “Allowing the Mind to Wander” by Carole Giangrande.

The efforts are being done every day by first nations people to get their basic human rights. The cruel act of government for the past decades and how the shoal lake people fighting for their rights is still going on.

The video “Still Waiting in Attawapiskat: Will Canada Fail the Next Generation of First Nations Students?” was released in 2008 based on the inequity that first nations experience in poverty, education, safety, mental health and so on. The main issues were focused on poor education environment and youth mental health.

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

Not when the Indian act begun had the aboriginals been respected as a whole. It was first named as the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869; it was then consolidated to The Indian Act, in which was established in 1876. This grants the ability for the aboriginals to receive land and ownership properties. This in turn signals a severe discrimination in normal reputation towards societal aspects. Everyone of any culture or religion should be treated of equivalence to

Since the beginning of colonization, indigenous people of Canada have been repressed in many ways by the Westerners. Aboriginal women have been having a really hard time, being not only aboriginal, but also women in a male-dominated society where women are seen as secondary and don’t have all the rights and privileges that men have. We will focus here on the legal discrimination against indigenous women in Canada that came with the Indian Act of 1876 and the amendment of 1985, how those two events influenced women. We will first study why indigenous women have been more discriminated than indigenous men, then how the Indian Act reinforced this inequity. Then we will see how the 1985 amendment came to be, a century later and what are the consequences of legal discrimination for indigenous women in Canada. We will conclude that, in a context of discrimination against natives with colonization, the Indian Act made legal injustices in detriment of indigenous women, and that after years of favouritism against them they finally gained a bit of justice through the amendment of 1985.

The Indian Act is still considered to be an extremely invasive and historically paternalistic piece of legislation in that it gives the Canadian federal government the authority to regulate important aspects of aboriginal life that were once governed by the aboriginal people. This authority encompasses control over the political system, cultural and traditional practices, possession of land, and even goes as far as setting a criterion to be considered as a status Indian.

Thunder Heart is a great film that deals with the Native American culture, politics, and the rigged political system that affects their community and heritage. One of the major issue the Native Americans face is the corruption in the political system and their lands being take away and driving there race out. The government is involved so there is a lot of politics and corruption when it comes to making decisions. Also it seemed like the outside world did not understand them as a people and what they believe in and how their traditions play a huge part of who they are. There lands are also in remote places that are of the path and that make their social network with the outside world limited and it can seem like they live in a third world

It is common for outright statements to be made and actions to be taken to make sure that the Indians know that the whites are not happy with them being in Canada. Theme one focuses on the racism in Northern Ontario, specifically white on Native racism, and culture as relational. One of the major issues that whites have against Natives is the notion that the government does too much for them. One would view the Indian’s treatment in Canada as unjust towards the Indians; instead, the whites view it as unjust towards the whites. They see their tax dollars supporting Indians and view this as unfair to the white population. In other words, they view Indians as being too reliant on the welfare of the state. They are given special rights and privileges that the whites do not approve of them having. Additionally, there is the issue of social class and hierarchies in terms of the working class white man and the Indian. Working class white men are considered to hold a lower status than an

This Act had fifteen regulations that were applicable only to indigenous people who decided on becoming enfranchised Indians and hence, British subjects. In becoming a British subject, these individuals would lose their First Nations status. Therefore, while this Act may appear to help Indigenous people, its ultimate goal was to create new subjects for the crown and hence, remove Frist Nation’s status.

The violations of Aboriginal women’s rights began in 1876 when the Canadian government passed the Indian Act. Under this act, indigenous women had no legal or political authority, detained to the reserves, and were forbidden to live on the reserve if they married a non-Aboriginal man. As well. at the beginning of the 20th century, thousands of Aborginal women were forcibly sterilized without their consent. Sexual violations continued for Indigenuos women, as thousands of young girls were raped, tortured, and abused in residential schools.

The History and Context of Club Culture "History is hard to know because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time, and which never explain, in retrospect, what really happened" (Hunter. S.Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") The late 1980's saw the emergence of a hugely significant social phenomenon. Rave culture (or club culture as it is now most commonly referred to), is of massive appeal to many young people and statistics by Mintel show that 15.7 million people in