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    Many court cases within Canada regarding Indigenous people have been discriminatory. The Daniels v. Canada (Indian Affairs and Northern Development) case was legally and culturally inappropriate in many ways due to the lack of care for the evidence put forth by Daniels and obvious discrimination. Thankfully, once the case reached the Supreme Court of Canada, the previous trials and decisions were put to rest and a proper and legally sound decision was made. The Daniels v. Canada (Indian Affairs and

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    which translates to harming the indigenous Arctic peoples. Their diets will be altered, new diseases will be introduced, and the changing of the Arctic land will restrict their rich cultural traditions and lifestyles. Although oil drilling will facilitate economic development in the Arctic, it should not be continued because its implementation is not sustainable for the environment, nor does it improve the lifestyles of the indigenous Arctic peoples. One concern that scientists have regarding oil

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    proof has been found to back Diamond’s assumption. By the study of ancient skeletons, visually viewing the bones, the teeth, and the general poor health of the mummified bodies, it is clear that agriculture had made its mark on a fair amount of people. Some people that were able to maintain farming were better off than others. Others had to make an irrational choice between gathering their food in harsh conditions or begin farming; but was this a grave mistake? As read in the article “The Worst Mistake

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    Nano Nagle was born in 1718, Country Cork, Republic of Ireland and died on April 26, 1784. Nano Nagle founded the Presentation Sister of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ireland and was also a pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland. In this essay I will give an overview of the life of Nano Nagle, the significant events, her achievements and sacrifices and the hardships Nano endured. I will also discuss how Nano Nagle responded to the needs of the faithful and how the key messages of Nagle, inspired and

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    any more resources to be used, they pack up their things and move on to the next area. Another characteristic of hunter gathers was the size of their group. The size of their groups was relatively small. Normally, these groups consisted of 10-50 people. One final characteristic of hunter gatherers is that they were egalitarian. They did not use the idea of having things as a means of status, due to them owning very little. They neither had social classes or formal positions of leadership.

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    and narrow snowshoes were the easiest to walk in. The Plateau First Nations used dogs to hunt as well, while the Plain First Nations would use horses, as they were very fast and could catch up to prey easily. They would also use horses to transport people and items. To traveling on water First Nations would use canoes, some of them would also build special ones like the Plateau

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    Foragers or Hunter-Gatherers make their living off the land and spend the majority of their time in their environment (OpenStax, 2014). Women go out and collect nuts, fruits, roots, and so on. They also look for bird eggs, and they will catch any animals you can pick up by hand, like tortoises, or frogs, or insects. If they are near an ocean, they might collect shellfish. Forager men will hunt larger game like deer or giraffes, seals, whales, etc. depending on what is in their environment (Ōnishi

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    The Fennec Fox lives in a desert environment, where it is very hot in the daytime, but can get very cold at night. They usually dwell in the deserts in northern Africa and the peninsula of Sinai. The deserts they are in usually stretch from Morocco, across Egypt, south to north Niger and Sudan, and east to Kuwait. This magnificent animal has many ways to help it survive. There are many ways the body saves the Fennec Fox, one being their built-in temperature regulators. The Fennec Fox has abnormally

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    paper is to talk about the conflicts between the First Nations and mining companies in Canada; to describe the current situation they are in and also examine the various outcomes of this situation. First Nations refers to Status and non-status Indian peoples in Canada. Historians have grouped the First Nations in Canada according to six main geographic areas. First Nations within these six areas are characterized by similar cultures and largely shaped by an environment. The six groups are Woodland First

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    Thesis ; The Chinook and Nez perce provide food, clothes , and shelter to their people they have different and similar strategies to collect food, clothes and, shelter . BODY 1: The differences between the Chinook tribe and the Nez perce tribe and how the two tribes collect their food and what they collect is.... The Chinook (page 1154 in the Encyclopedia of Native American tribes it states )“used dugout canoes up to fifty feet long they caught fish and sea mammals near the mouth of the Columbia

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