The Canadian North As A Welfare State

In the article, written by Bruce G. Trigger, a professor of anthropology at McGill University, Early Native North American Responses to European Contact: Romantic versus Rationalistic Interpretations, Trigger thoroughly explains the relativist and rationalist viewpoints of European contact with the Native North Americans. The author argues that the rationalist view is more significant than the relativist view. Although, he believes cultural beliefs were important, the reasoning and knowledgeable views overpowered the outcomes of Native American responses towards the Europeans.

Before the Europeans came to Canada, Natives had their own culture, traditions and norms. These differences were obvious to the Europeans who sailed to Canada, their interactions with the Native peoples proved these vast differences. One major difference noted was that the Iroquois organized their societies on different lines than did the patrilineal western Europeans. Iroquois women “by virtue of her functions as wife and mother, exercised an influence but little short of despotic, not only in the wigwam but also around the council fire.” “She indeed possessed and exercised all civil and political power and authority. The country, the land, the fields with their harvests and fruits belonged to her … her plans and wishes modeled the policy and inspired the decisions of council.” The Europeans were astounded by this way of life.

The article “the inuit paradox” starts off with an Inupiat woman describing the most common foods that she consumed growing up in an Inuit community in which foraging is necessary for survival. She describes that the traditional Inuit diet focused primarily on meat that was foraged from the environment.

"The Colonization of North America." In Modern History Sourcebook. April 1999- [cited 17 September 2002] Available from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall.mod/modsbook.html., http://curry.eduschool.virginia.edu.

The long history between Native American and Europeans are a strained and bloody one. For the time of Columbus’s subsequent visits to the new world, native culture has

The First Nations’ inventions are beneficial for ameliorating Canada’s economic development. Some inventions of the Aboriginals include the canoe and snowshoes. Canoes were constructed out of various trees specifically Birchbark as it was an ideal material for its smooth, light, resilient, and waterproof essential qualities (Marsh, 2006). This was used extensively as a means of fishing, transportation as well as the fur trade. It was also used for providing the ongoing trade between Europeans and

Conquest and disease are often the primary negative factors analyzed when discussing European interaction with Native Americans in the Americas. However, with the use of bioarcheology, Historians particularly Clark Spencer Larsen, have been able to learn more about the lifestyle and diet of mission Native Americans in Florida from remains which paint a broader picture than traditional European sources. The mass introduction of corn and hard labor into the diets and lives of Plains Native Americans had a detrimental effect upon the wellbeing and health of those living under Spanish rule. These effects become much more pronounced when compared to the distant ancestors of the Native Americans.

The migration of European settlers and culture to North America is an often examined area. One aspect of this, however, is worthy of deeper analysis. The conquest of North America by Europeans and American settlers from the 16th to 19th centuries had a profound effect on the indigenous political landscape by defining a new relationship dynamic between natives and settlers, by upsetting existing native political, economic and military structures, and by establishing a paradigm where the indigenous peoples felt they had to resist the European and American incursions. The engaging and brilliant works of Andres Rensendez and Steve Inskeep, entitled respectively “A Land So Strange” and “Jacksonland”, provide excellent insights and aide to this analysis.

Despite their efforts, they continued to be marginalized. In frustration, the Plains Cree chiefs had said, “the buffalo were our only dependence before the transfer of the country, and this and other wild animals are disappearing, and we must farm to enable us to live” (Carter 68). It was clear that the Plains Cree tried desperately to make an agricultural economy work. It was essential to their survival and well-being. Unfortunately, government intervention implemented restrictive policies, which created misconceptions of First Nations people being unmotivated to do well.

One of the most important things in our lives today is Canada’s welfare state, as it transformed Canada’s economy after the economy’s downturn from the Great Depression. The democratic system was formed to maintain prosperity, solidity and security in our everyday lives. One of the key pillars of the nation’s welfare state is employment insurance (EI). Through this analysis of Canada’s employment insurance, I will elucidate why I believe that this program should continue, but with refinements, as it has benefited a large portion of unemployed Canadians over the years and should continue doing so to fulfill the countries goals of the welfare state.

The hunting, fishing, and trapping way of life is one of the main threads of continuity that has made the forest important to Cree life. How would they survive without there hunters? They wouldn’t, no food for the children or even clothing for their bodies couldn’t be possible without the job of the

There are many ways that governments have tried to fix this issue, one of them being social welfare. According to Hick (2005), welfare can be defined as "legislated documents that prescribe how income security and social services are to be carried out” or it can be seen as a philosophical idea or "an abstract set of principles that enable society to seek solutions to social problems”. An example of what is considered a social welfare state is Canada, due to their programs for income security and social security which are provided by the government to their citizens. Although Canada’s social welfare has been facing some problems due to citizens depending more on other organizations outside of the government, this is because of their rigid criteria

Even as a young boy, Tommy Douglas saw the need for a change in Canada that would not only close the social inequalities between the wealthy and the poor, but to benefit every man,woman,child in Canada; no matter what their status or background. As he passed into adulthood, Tommy Douglas took a stand on issues through social gospel--an idea he practiced during his time at Brandon College and continued after he left, when he became a Baptist Minister. Douglas would preach on Sundays, and spend the rest of the week running relief programs to help ease the growing hardship of local farmers and families. However, realizing that his efforts were not a permanent solution to the hardships devastating Saskatchewan, Tommy continued climbing the ladder

The first article mentioned the Grassy Narrows aboriginals of Canada and how industrial waste led to the contamination of the aboriginal’s food source. In support, the second source described in details how the contamination of food source affected the health of aboriginals by reducing the availability of nutritional plant and animal. This caused an increase in the sale price of food items, insufficient funds contributed to malnutrition and food

Canada is regarded as one of the wealthiest industrialized countries in the world. This indication is contrary to the well-being reality affecting Canadians. Despite being part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD), Canada has lagged behind her otherwise wealthy counterparts in the industrialized countries being position 19 out of 22 nations (Breznitz and Zysman, 2013). This has been attributed to the precarious levels of poverty in a majority of Canadian households. The country has not recognized any official poverty measurement although other universal measures such as LICO is used for measuring relative poverty, a more determinable measure of poverty for wealthy countries.