First Nations culture

Canadian government in regard to First Nations People was to assimilate them into European culture and erase their culture from the country. Separation and education of young First Nations children was the major means to achieve their objective. With substantial involvement from the Christian churches, the residential school system was created and schools were built throughout the entire country. The Kamloops Indian Residential School was attended by students from the nations surrounding Kamloops including

children’s identity and their culture, leaving behind their traditional heritage. Plot Synopsis Through this documentary, Lyna Hart and Glen Anaguod, tells their stories of what residential schools were like for them and others. Parents were forced to send their children to these schools or risk getting arrested. These schools were government- funded schools, ran by various orders of the Christian faith. This

incorrect; the government and churches should be judged about residential schools because they should have learned from the mistake of slavery, and even after that, permanent harm was done; First Nations were still treated like nothing.It was detrimental to students, as they were abused, and dealt with a loss of culture, heritage, and language. Residential schools were initially established because it was assumed that Aboriginals were not integrating themselves into Canada’s modernizing society quickly

First Nation Peoples within Canada have been facing many injustices in their homeland since the dawn of colonization. The most unraveling point to First Nation assimilation was the formation of the consequential Indian Act and residential schools resulting in a stir of adversity. As racist ideologies within Canada developed, upheaval against such treatment was undertaken as First Nation communities fought back against government land claims and eradication of treaty rights. In attempt to make amends

already inhabited. Canada was one of them and the people that were already living there are known as The First Nations Peoples. They are the peoples who used to be called Indians. They are divided into more than 600 diverse bands. All these tribes have different history, culture, and traditional cuisine. Something they share in common is that they were forced to assimilate to European Culture by the Indian Act. According to the website Indigenous Foundations the Indian Act was composed of two previous

It all began, when Europeans took over. They took The First Nations land, peace, freedom and destroyed their motherland by causing vomits and poisons to the river. That wasn’t enough for them, instead the Europeans wanted to change The First Nations so that they could become like them because they thought they were better. So they created residential school’s. Over 150,000 of The First Nations and Inuit childrens at the age of 7 and up were taken away from their homes and forced to attend residential

The residential school system in Canada was active for over a century, with the last one closing in 1996 (Troniak, 2011), yet many Canadians still remain unaware of this terrible part in our nation 's history. Throughout the time that these schools remained open, "over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children passed through more than 130 residential schools in virtually every part of Canada" and it is estimated that more than half of them are survivors (Troniak, 2011). So if such a large

From the first contact between Aboriginal Peoples and European immigrants to the present day, the aim of Canadian government policy has been to assimilate the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. The attempted forced abandonment of their culture was perpetrated through a variety of strategies including force, aggression and legalities. While historians and politicians may disagree about the motivations of Canadian policy, the impact has been irrefutable. In efforts to create one unified nation, successive

and current terms of the Indian Act is deep and powerful, Indigenous politicians and governments remain strongly divided as to the value and purpose of the legislation. This is hardly surprising, given that the political structures and political cultures of Aboriginal communities across the country have, for generations, been created and distorted by the imposition of Indian Act government systems It is important to understand both the origins and impact of the Indian Act. The Indian Act reflected

placed a lot of negative beliefs or stereotypes on the first nations communities. We have given them stereotypes such as, the “lazy Indian”, the “uneducated Indian”, the “dumb Indian” and the “drunken Indian”. In this paper I will discuss the stereotype of the “drunken Indian”. I will highlight where the “drunken Indian stereotype came from and why it exists. I will explain what this stereotype means and the impact it has on first nations communities. I will also discuss how this stereotype