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B. Remedies and the Contemporary situation of Self-Determination in Canada After the Human Rights Committee reached the decision in Lovelace’s case, it required Canada to submit the measures taken with regards to it. The Government responded with possible amendments of the Indian Act but did not provide specific remedies it would take for Sandra Lovelace and other similar cases. In particular, the government informed the Committee that it acknowledged Committee’s concerns that the section 12(1)(b)

was mostly in the Richmond district, but it affected other spots like Dartmouth and the Tufts Cove area. The blast even shattered windows in Truro, 100 km away, and was heard in Prince Edward Island.The blast later caused a tsunami devastating the Mi'kmaq First Nations people who had lived in the Tufts Cove area. People living in Halifax were not ready and not equipped for such a disaster, there were almost no emergency or social services in place and most were administered by civilians and private

The Wampanoag' is a Native American individuals in North America. They were a free alliance comprised of a few tribes. Numerous Wampanoag individuals today are selected in two governmentally perceived tribes, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, or four state-perceived tribes in Massachusetts. In the start of the seventeenth century, at the season of first contact with the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a domain that incorporated

Every war will have those who support the war and those who are against the war. In 1965, those who were against the Vietnam War made their views known by many forms of protesting such as forming organizations, rallying, and anti-war protest music. Anti-war protest music was an opportunity to put people’s perspectives into song to hopefully spread their message. Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote the song “Universal Soldier” in 1962 and her message was that “Universal Soldier is about individual responsibility

Education is important to the survival of a community through the perseverance of language and culture, through the cultivation of learning in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life and as otherwise stated by John Dewey (1916), "a process of living and not a preparation for future living." As we understand it - it is a process of inviting truth and possibility, of encouraging and giving time to discovery. (Smith, 2015). Education is therefore defined as the process of receiving

New Brunswick is a province in Canada. A province is basically state located in a country, set up from Colonial times. New Brunswick is located in the Northern and the Western hemisphere, and its relative location is east of Quebec, west of Nova Scotia, and North of Massachusetts. The absolute location of New Brunswick is 46 degrees north and 66 degrees west. I have never been to New Brunswick, but I have always wanted to live in an area in which the general population speaks French and English as

The essay “Sports Logos an Insult to Aboriginals” is written by the late Noah Augustine. This essay is written in his point of view and it’s based on his opinion of why he thinks that big money sports teams shouldn’t be using the Aboriginals culture or religious symbols to represent a certain sports team. The author thinks that it’s an insult to his people, his culture being Aboriginal himself, he states in his essay his is preferred to be known as (Mi’kamq) rather than Indian. He directly states

and terminology taken by Native American individuals are represented here. These examples are taken from blog posts regarding various topics surrounding these ideas, and the tribes represented include the Navajo, White Bear Clan, Cree, Metis, and Mi’kmaq people. While each of the five have different relationships to their Native ancestry, all five individuals take a perspective regarding the use of the term two-spirit. While all five take a positive stance on the use of the word, applying it to themselves

Historic treaties continue to be relevant in Canada today because ever since Christopher Columbus arrived to an undiscovered continent, he managed to employ detrimental consequences to the peoples of this land. The treaty was one of the colonial processes that would allow for the exploitation of the First Nations. Many Aboriginal Signatories to treaties understood the treaty agreements as being the foundation of a relationship with the Crown and that this relationship would be based on co-existence

INSERT SOMETHING ABOUT SOCIOLOGY PAPER. Historic treaties continue to be relevant in Canada today because ever since Christopher Columbus arrived to an undiscovered continent, he managed to employ detrimental consequences to the peoples of this land. The treaty was one of the colonial processes that would allow for the exploitation of the First Nations. Many Aboriginal Signatories to treaties understood the treaty agreements as being the foundation of a relationship with the Crown and that this relationship