First Nations

believe these words from Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy accurately describe the pain and grief First Nations who were affected by residential schools went through. The preponderance of Canadians is not educated on Indian residential schools. Now, the government has realized they were doing wrong and are trying to compensate for the major mistakes they have made. Although the government is trying to reconcile with First Nations, their attempt at doing this may not be meeting the needs of everyone in the process

Ever since the British and French came to Canada, the first nations people have always seen themselves get the short end of the stick. Examples of this are: having their land taken away from them, receiving racial discrimination, being victim to Residential schools and being assigned a reservation to live on. For the last two centuries our Canadian government has been trying to make amends to these First Nations People. One of these amends to status indians are: No Taxes on any funds inside of a

Audience: The goal we were trying to achieve in our PSA was to raise awareness of First Nations lack of education to all audiences, therefore we didn’t include specific factors that would draw in a certain target audience. However, we did try to compare our outcome of education to First Nations’ so that people around our age (14-18) have more to relate to. (Ex. Data from First Nation schools identifies the rate of First Nations graduation at approximately 36% compared to the Canadian graduation rate of

The First Nations were nomadic hunter-gatherers who treated the land with respect, this was before the Europeans came and introduced them to new ways of life while slowly trying to rid them of their culture. The First Nations were welcoming and provided assistance to the Europeans. The two groups began to trade and enter into treaties with one another. The First Nations saw treaties differently than the Europeans. They believed that the treaties were a way of guaranteeing a future between the two

The First Nations peoples of Canada’s right to self-govern has been a widely debated and highly controversial topic since the British North America Act in 1867, when the Canadian government gained the authority to negotiate treaties with the First Nations and purchase their land. First Nations people believe that they have an inherent right to self-govern, as they were the sole inhibitors of Canada before the Europeans made contact in the 1500’s. Before colonization, the aboriginals had formed

The French relationship with First Nations has been a dominate factor in Canadian history. Their successful means in establishing such relations led them to great achievements and downfalls. This relationship was successfully earned by the French for a variety of reasons. One, the First Nations, already in awe of European culture, were eager to trade due to their further fascination of European items (232). More specifically, they desired basic European goods such as “…knives, hatchets, kettles,

In the first source, the narrator is sharing a message to the reader, of how he doesn't know what group he belongs to, because he is “hanging in the middle of two cultures”, as mentioned in the source. This supports marginalization, which is when you are pushed to the outskirts of society and you feel like an outsider. “Being put between two walls in a room and left hanging in the middle”. In this excerpt from the text, the narrator means the purpose of residential schools were to take First Nation

1. Discuss your understanding of historic and contemporary colonization, how it continues to affect First Nations, Metis, and or Inuit peoples today and how it may be reflected in your proposed specific area of social work practice. To begin with, colonization began when first contact was made between Indigenous peoples of Canada and Europeans. At first the settlers were humble to Indigenous peoples and learnt how to survive the diverse land of what is known as Canada. As settlers began getting

The first article is about the Supreme Court of Canada needs to determine whether the records of the Indigenous residential school should be preserved or destroyed as most of the sensitive topics and abuses had happened there. However, there are some conflicts about this topics among public because some believe that survivor’s privacy should be protected and some said public should know the history of this tragedy and how sad it was. Moreover, if the information is not destroyed now it will be eventually

relationship with the First Nation people. I never despise the importance of First Nation people in Canada’s history, and, now, I believe that the initial wealth of this country was based on the First Nation people and the fur trading. It is true that the fur trade had brought many convenient fools and many opportunities to Aboriginal people, but the negative effect of it should not be neglected, since it had completely changed their life-style and badly impacted on their culture. First of all, the fur