comparable to those of developing countries” (“Prejudices”). Canadian Aboriginals have been treated with the utmost disrespect in their native country. Firstly‚ Aboriginals have not been honoured with the recognition that they rightfully deserve. For example‚ Aboriginals have not been treated as competent equals when negotiating land ownership treaties. In one instance “James Douglas… negotiated agreements… extinguishing Aboriginal title to the lands around Victoria‚ Nanaimo and Fort Rupert between
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and learning) strategies. It is evident that in today’s society Aboriginal people have many issues to overcome to give their children the best opportunities in life. Some of these include‚ poor health care‚ young pregnancy‚ isolation‚ postnatal and antenatal care‚ uneducated parents‚ alcoholism/substance abuse‚ inadequate housing‚ family violence and racism (Gordon.S. 2006). Although there has been a slight increase in Aboriginal children completing their schooling due to past government attempts
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Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms - History Australia The rights and freedoms of indigenous Australians have clearly improved since 1945 and onwards. The numerous improvements in Government Policies both state and federal have lead to a vast advancement in the rights and freedoms of Aborigines. The various examples of Aboriginal activism in Australia have educated the Australian people that they want to be treated equally. Although there are many ways that the rights and freedoms of indigenous Australians
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Aboriginal Charter of Rights Analysis Aboriginal Charter of Rights by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) is a poem about the treatment of the Aboriginal population of Australia. Written in 1962‚ the purpose of this text was to expose the inequality‚ prejudice and suffering faced by the Aborigines under the control of the Australian government and political system. Noonuccal was a strong believer in indigenous rights and this is strongly portrayed in the poem. She uses a critical tone‚ juxtaposition
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Residential schools were created in 1990 by the government to assimilate aboriginal children into Canadian culture. However‚ these residential schools has hurt the aboriginal children in many negative ways. Unfortunately children were ripped away from their family and forced into unfamiliar situation which was very hard. The negative affects of residential schools are trauma‚ mental health‚ and self-medication. One of the main consequence of Residential schools is trauma and the cycle continued
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The impact of colonisation to the aboriginals was that the aboriginals lost their land to the british. The british took all of the Aboriginal people tools and weapons. The Aboriginals thought it was sharing so they took some of the british tools. The british did not think of it as sharing the thought it was stealing.when the aboriginals found out there were not sharing the aboriginals got mad. Sharing is part of the law.so the aborginas got mad at the british for not shareing.the british also ruinad
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Aboriginal people are the natives of Canada; the people who lived here before anyone else settled. Therefore‚ when new settlers arrived they sometimes had to fight to get what belonged to them. This has not changed today. After the 1980s‚ Aboriginal people have only been somewhat successful in having their issues such as self-government‚ social conditions‚ land claims‚ and residential schools addressed. Self-government is one of the issues that the First Nations have been moderately successful
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The education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander has become a focus of the NSW Department of Education while making policies of education in Australia as the nation strives to bring equality for them. The education of Aboriginal students has faced a number of challenges in the past which led to their continuous educational failure. The overt or covert form of racism has always remained a feature of Aboriginal educational polices‚ which has always marginalized these students. Any member of the
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inequitable government policies‚ and the variation of cultural beliefs. Aboriginal participation and education in Western schooling is far below the standard of academic achievement of non-indigenous Australians. This is resulting from a history of ill-treatment and dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Contemporary statistics prove the deprived health‚ sanitation‚ educational‚ employment and housing conditions of Aboriginal Australians‚ revealing their underprivileged position opposed to non- indigenous
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Creation of Snow and Jack Frost Long ago‚ the weather was just warm and the grass was just green. Every person on earth was happy the way they were‚ and the way everything was. God was always trying to bring new things into Earth‚ to complete its perfectness. One day God had this big feeling that he needed to create something for Earth and his people. But what could it be? Everything was already so perfect. So God asked and angel named Jack to go down to Earth and figure out what was missing. Jack
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