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    of Western Australia lay over a dozen tribes of the Noongar people. The aboriginal Noongar tribe is one of the largest Aboriginal cultural blocks in Australia, and their names stems from the meaning of the “original inhabitants of the south-west of Western Australia.” The Noongar people are deeply, spiritually connected to the earth, nature, and their ancestral past through what they call “the dreaming”, or “dreamtime”. For Aboriginals, the Dreamtime is how their cultural knowledge is formed and

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    They were no longer declared Flora and Fauna This means that Aboriginal people would be considered a part of the landscape and not humans in their own right.. In 1967, a Referendum was held by all members of Australian society voting on the issue of allowing Indigenous Australian to be a part of the census and thereby able to vote and be counted as part of Australia’s population. This achieved not only citizenship for Aboriginal people, but put the issue of Indigenous Rights on both the political

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    The Relationship Among Aboriginal Population, Age and Shelter Costs Course: SOC222H Professor’s Name Riva Lieflander Name: Yingjun Li Student ID: 1000677957 Date: 04/20/2015 Introduction The 2006 Census Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) involved a total of 844,476 people. Participants were randomly selected in a manner that represented all social characteristics that existed among Canadians. Technically, it was estimated that the number represented only 2.7% of the Canadian population. It

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    Colonialism, Aboriginal peoples, and racism in Canada In this research paper, I will be explaining how western colonialism and racism destroyed the reputation of aboriginal peoples in Canada. The reason why I chose this topic because it shows the strong relationship to anthropology and after taking aboriginal studies 30, it also shows that I have a clear understanding about the history of aboriginal peoples in Canada, the struggles they have been through over the past decade and the challenges they

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    schools on the Aboriginal people of Canada. If one does not expect to find education as a tool for assimilation and colonization, indeed you expect to find abuse as a way of assimilation. This paper argued that although there was an apology if Canada continues to discriminate against the Aboriginal people reconciliation is not a factor. It is evident that the Canada government obviously want to stop the Aboriginal people's culture, language, and spirituality. They look at the Aboriginal people as inferior

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    A. The Aboriginal People in Canada Before starting a discussion about aboriginal education in Canada, it is important to figure out who the aboriginal people in Canada are. According to a document, Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: First Nations People, Métis and Inuit (National Household Survey, 2011), there are 3 ethnic groups of the aboriginal people in Canada. In 2011, “First Nations people 851,560 people identified as a First Nations person, representing 60.8% of the total Aboriginal population

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    Throughout Australian history, Aboriginal people have been displaced and mistreated through the course of time, through the separation from their from kinship groups, land and the stolen generation. This has resulted in the connection to their dreaming lost, misconnection and loss of their sacred sites and traditional food from their land. As a consequence of the stolen generation, many aboriginal children were deprived of their parents, families, spirituality, language from their land and their

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    enormously different teachings. Indigenous Peoples of the world have been educating each other within their own communities for thousands of years. Through the processes of ritual, spirituality, and tradition, these cultures thrive, sustainably, by living in unison with their land. As Dr. Weber-Pillwax explains, First Nations Peoples of Canada live in relationship to their "to the land" and their "the community" and these values are therefore ingrained into Aboriginal identity. Furthermore, the molecular

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    education) that were faced by some indigenous people during the 70’s and 80’s. After the interview concluded, I had enough information to compare the policies of her generation in contrast to the modern policies that deal with the same issues that were discussed in the interview. During the interview I was told about the challenges faced in the 70s, which included poor health services to indigenous. Aboriginal Medical Services (AMS), National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation (NAIHO) were

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    Since the beginning of our colonial history, Canada’s Indigenous people have struggled with racist legislation and policies designed to terminate their cultural values, rights, and freedoms. From the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to the recently passed Bill C-51, Canada’s Eurocentric federal government has caused a cultural oppression, and some would even argue, genocide of Canada’s First Nations people (Gray, 2011). Canada’s history of discriminatory federal policies have not only wrought destruction

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