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    passed the Gradual Civilization Act. This act used government policy to assimilate aboriginals to Europeans culture. This also set precedent for residential schools to be built later on. 1879: Aggressive Assimilation Policy 1879 On March 14‚ 1879‚ Nicholas Flood Davin wrote the The Davin Report. It recommended boarding schools to be built by the government and run by the church. Davin believed that orphaned aboriginal children hated to be reminded of their ancestors and that the schools would allow

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    Junior’s changes Today‚ most people in Canada have very high quality of life. Most of us are middle class or higher. But can you think of the life of an aboriginal people in the same country with us? The main character of the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie‚ Junior‚ is a aboriginal person who lives in a reservation. At the beginning of the story‚ he was the same with all the other indian kids who have no hope and no future. But in the end‚ he became a hopeful kid

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    The Indian In The Child

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    is the author a member of the First Peoples‚ a government official‚ a business person‚ a teacher or professor‚ or an environmentalist? The author Stephanie Wood was a 17-year-old young girl when she wrote the short story. And she is a squamish which means she is a member of the First people. 2. What opinions does the author express? Which are explicit? Which are implicit? She expresses that the pain the Aboriginal children got from the residential school

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    that the government left on Japanese people but Thomas King’s story also relates to the unfair treatment from the government towards Aboriginals. He shows that aboriginals have also been through discrimination from the government and that they can relate to the Japanese. Thomas King and Joy Kogawa have similar opinions about the Japanese internment. A common theme throughout both is that people should be treated equally regardless of who they are. Japanese people faced racism and discrimination because

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    Aboriginal Women in Canada

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    The issue of violence against Aboriginal women is my chosen subtopic that strongly contributes to the history of Aboriginal women’s struggle for rights and identity in Canada. To search relevant newspaper articles for this topic‚ the databases that were used were Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe‚ as well as Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies. The reason these two databases were chosen was because Canadian Newsstand offered articles from multiple newspapers in the country‚ therefore providing me with diverse

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    treatment even went so far as that the children received an enriched flour that was not deemed legal and healthy by food law standards in Canada. The need to escape from these conditions was overwhelming to some. Children died trying to escape their horrible life at these schools. The attempt to track their way back home to their families was what killed many Aboriginal children. One incident included four young boys under the age of ten who were trying to make it home to their families‚ and tragically

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    Smith. Toronto: Nelson‚ Thompson Learning‚ 2002. 62-74. The 1885 Uprising is one of the defining moments in Canadian Aboriginal Peoples’ history. Though the historical account of this series of events‚ which led to the prosecution of many Aboriginal leaders‚ seems to be biased from both the official reports and Stonechild’s account‚ the political position of the Native Peoples was set back for many years because of these historical incidents. In March of 1885‚ a dispute that many felt was avoidable

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    While Ian is looking at the notice of his ex-best friend’s death‚ he spots the numerous mistakes as well as the exclusion of the pinnacle points of his life. This excerpt accurately accentuates the contrast between the life of an aboriginal and the life of a Caucasian for the reason that Ian grew to be a successful playwright‚ while Lloyd dies on the streets drunk with sorrow and in freezing temperatures. At the start of the story‚ Ian is viewed as a blameless and innocent child because

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    Throughout Canadian history‚ the Métis have struggled to gain recognition as a distinct people‚ particularly from the Canadian government. Often‚ they were described as being Métis only by virtue of their mixed ancestry‚ with their own unique identities being ignored. This was seen by many as a sign of impurity‚ and the Metis were treated negatively as a result. The Canadian government did not recognize the rights of the Métis; rather‚ the government legislated over the Métis as Indians when it was

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    able to read and write and become part of modern society‚ a large majority had suffered far too much from their experiences. The key issue was isolation from their own cultures. The attempt to assimilate native aboriginals into the Canadian culture went terribly wrong. The aboriginal people had a very unique way of teaching their children. Their elders were able to teach them art‚ music‚ language and religious values. They taught them how to survive. They taught them through experience passed on

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