The And Its Effects On Native American Populations

The first contemporary issue that Native American face is their right to prosecute crimes such as rapes against their community. Native American women suffer from being the target

The Alaska native, African American, and the women that are on the welfare system have been marginalized and oppressed. The amount of trauma that these people throughout their life span has been very painful. According to the reading of the articles have been impacted by historical trauma; they have experience multigenerational trauma. They are still suffering for being recognized. The system has oppressed and marginalize its victims ().

On the evening of September 15th, 2017, I attended the 25th annual Take Back the Night march. Take Back the Night is an international event that takes place in many different communities through the year. Universally, this event has a similar meaning, to raise awareness, honor the memory of women who have not survived violence, celebrating the strength of those who have and to demand an end to violence against women. Furthermore, this special event honored and recognized the culture of indigenous peoples with an emphasizes on the missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. By attending this community event I was able to critically reflect on my own experience, values, and beliefs. In doing so, this helped inform me of my own values and also will inform my future practice as a social worker.

In Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin: An Aboriginal Approach to Healing, Michael Hart discusses the interaction between social work and Aboriginal people. He notes that, traditionally, social work and psychology have taken a very Euro-centric approach, which has disenfranchised Aboriginal people. He discusses how Aboriginal concepts can be incorporated into social work techniques in order to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, of Aboriginal people. He focuses specifically on the sharing circle as a way of using Aboriginal techniques in the counseling context.

Intersectionality has been partly criticized for being nebulous in nature and difficult to define and apply in practice. For the purposes of this paper, I do not wish to offer a defininitve definintion of the term, but instead offer an understanding of several key concepts which have particular salience for social work practice. Intersectionality can function both as a theory for understanding structural inequality but also as a paradigm through which to investigate these systems. Intersectionality scholarship has functioned primarily to highlight the complexity of interlocking systems of oppression. In doing so intersectional scholarship seeks to center the experience of marginalized groups, revealing how oppression manifests both inside and outside of social justice movements.

If government officials are truly interested in assisting Indigenous communities in dealing with the violence in their communities, they should demonstrate this commitment by developing a national strategy to curb violence against Indigenous women. Special attention should be paid to the way race, gender, and power intersects in the violence faced by Indigenous women. Furthermore, as specifically mentioned by Professor Adam Jones of UBC Okanagan, the structural violence of their continuing poverty, discrimination and dispossession from ancestral territories, as well as the echoing trauma of the residential-school genocide needs to be assessed (Jones). Significantly, to address violence against Indigenous women successfully,

Since the migration of Europeans to the New World relationships with Native Americans tended to be tense and exploitative. With time the white Americans were able to wear down the Native tribes through growth of population along with the rise of advance technology. These advancement often led to bloodshed between the two groups as they fought over the land and survival. The Indians were also greatly affected by the many new disease brought to the New World from the Europeans. The government and the American people were looking for a permanent solution towards the Native Americans. President Andrew Jackson created and submitted the policy of Indian removal to the west of the Mississippi River to Congress. The Indian Removal Act gave the

As social workers, we should be aware of the history of oppression among Native Americans in order to effectively provide services. To do that we must be conscious of the amount of loss and the unresolved pain associated with racism, colonialism, and oppression the Natives have endured and the lasting effects of such events. The vast diversity and differences that exist among Native tribes such as different languages, beliefs, customs, and spirituality, etc. is something we must also take into consideration when assisting this community.

“it is our belief that because our white man’s medicine is very technical-oriented, very symptom-oriented, very drug-and surgery-oriented, that it lacks something that Native medicine has, which we desperately need but don’t practice; spiritually… in many of these things we were talking about- family violence, alcohol abuse, trauma, suicide- I believe that the Native public health nurses, Native nurses, Native doctors would have that in their approach as well- a spiritual component” (Health Care, para. 4).

There is a common belief that First Nations people have it easy: getting money from the government, free post-secondary education, and being exempt from certain taxes. Despite this, Aboriginals have much higher unemployment rates, lower life expectancies, and higher substance abuse rates (Bombay, Matheson, & Anisman, 2009, 7). As a result of colonization, First Nations’ resources were depleted, their land was stolen, and their cultures and identities were stripped from them. All of this was done in an attempt to civilize Aboriginal people; to assimilate them into white European culture. Very early on, settlers regarded Aboriginals as inferior to them and treated them accordingly. Children were taken from their families and forced into residential schools. Despite all of this, during the First World War many Aboriginal men volunteered to fight with the Canadian army. In Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden writes about the atrocities that residential school survivors endured not only in those schools, but fighting for the army in WWI. Boyden introduces three Cree characters: Elijah, Xavier, and Niska. Each one of these characters endured their own traumas and each chose their own ways to cope. Unfortunately, due to the extremely painful nature of both their physical and psychological wounds, these characters turn to different substances introduced to them by the settlers to cope. The effects from these traumas can be seen still in today’s generations of First Nations people.

Thousands years prior to crossing paths with the Europeans, the Native Americans had invented creative cultures. They found ways to use plants for multiple purposes including medications, food and dyes. They established a way to domesticate animals to suit their needs. They built cities, produced monuments and even developed a working political order. Native Americans were able to not only adapt to the changing environmental conditions, but they did it in a way that worked in their favor every time. They only began struggling to preserve their cultures when the Europeans became a factor in it. The Europeans brought along deadly illnesses such as Measles, mumps, whooping cough. The Native Americans became very susceptible to these illnesses

The Native American people and their history have greatly impacted modern day America and created the world we all know today. without their inspiration and help, Europeans would not have been able to colonize America on their own; furthermore it would've been very difficult and most would not have survived. America was built upon the ideas that originated from the Native American people. Culture that has been introduced by them, agricultural development, and political views created the bases of how America grew and functions today. Many times, people image Native Americans mainly on their art. The natives of the Southwest are known for their turquoise jewelry, the natives from the Plains for their beads, and the Northwest Coast are known for

The ongoing targeting of Aboriginal Children and Women is a significant impediment to development in Canada. In my research essay I propose to engage the analytical concept of intersectionality to critically interpret government-led development initiatives in Canada and the wider world from a postcolonial/feminist perspective.

Why do governments participate in ethnocide and how can removing one’s cultural identity harm society as a whole? The use of subjugation as a first world government says that peace is not fully possible within that society. Institutionalized racism in Canada has been a hot topic recently due to the presence and organized events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, raising awareness for the 150,000 aboriginal Canadians who were forced into enrolling in “residential schools” that removed them from their family and culture in a disgraceful practice. The action of this kidnapping can be viewed as a form of ethnocide, and the government has now actively taken initiative in writing this immense wrong by discussing it properly. A nation state that relegates any ethnic group to mandatory schooling that solely teaches state administered materials is making a dangerous decision. We are supposed to learn from our elders, if our elders cannot pass their cultural knowledge down to the younger generation, it will create a rift in that community that is visible throughout society.

“Bioprospecting is aimed to make humans rich, not to conserve forests” (Onaga 2001). Even though the Convention on Biological Diversity called for more benefit sharing, in most cases bioprospecting agreements cannot be enforced by source countries, communities, or the convention (Sandhu 3,4). This makes biopiracy common, since the country that makes a successful commercial product is likely to want to protect their intellectual property rights and neglect indigenous contributions (Cluis 1). A local curing plant that was once a free commodity to indigenous people, is now a marketed one that becomes unaffordable for the ones that discovered its value and used it before anyone else (Cluis 1). In 1969, a fungus containing ‘cyclosporin’ was collected in Norway and brought to Switzerland for screening (Dhillion et al. 492). It happened to be an immunosuppressant that could treat patients with organ transplantations. This discovery was before the Convention on Biological Diversity, so Norway got no credit. However, if they would have received a mere 2% royalty from the profit, they would have gained $24.3 million in 1997 alone, proving the incredible economic potential bioprospecting has (Dhillion et al. 492). Bioprospecting can also harm the environment, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has been criticized for devastating populations of “Maytenus Buchananii,” a native Kenyan species with medicinal uses (Dhillion et al. 492). Lack of legal framework and indigenous