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    Health Equality

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    Ottawa: Health Canada‚ First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. DEEBLE‚ J.‚ MATHERS‚ C.‚ SMITH‚ L.‚ et al. (1998) Expenditures on Health Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People FEDERAL‚ PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON POPULATION HEALTH (1999). Toward a Healthy Nation: Second Report on the Health of Canadians. Charlottetown: ACPH. HEALTH CANADA (2001) HEALTH CANADA (2000). Ten Years of Health Transfer First Nation and Inuit Control. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/msb/pptsp/report

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    treaties and other laws. Because of this the education of Status Indians (Metis and Inuit were put into the system later) fell under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Federal Government. During 1830’s-1900’s the Canadian government and various Christian churches created the Indian Residential School System (IRS). The IRS was a compulsory education system created to assimilate First Nation‚ eventually Metis and Inuit children through means similar to the Colonial English and the Prussian compulsory

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    In Canada‚ the term Indigenous peoples (or Aboriginal peoples) refer to First Nations‚ Métis and Inuit. Aboriginal people are the original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada. In 2011‚ there were more than 1.8 million Aboriginal people living in communities throughout the country. Their history significantly predates the arrival of European settlers. Though severely threatened and in certain cases extinguished by colonial forces‚ Aboriginal culture‚ language and social systems have shaped

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    or closely related ones‚ why and how I don’t know but I did some research on why things happened the way did. Here’s what I found. The first and most important motif in my opinion is why humans are created last. Many Creation myths including the Inuit whose god‚ Raven accidently created humans because they were born from the pea pods he created without thought. The chinese human creator Nuwa was happy with what Pan-gu did with the

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    encountered as well. The sport was introduced to Alaska by the Inuit ancestors about a thousand years ago. The native tribes relied on the dogs for transportation on trails and coincidentally creating the modern day Iditarod route. Miners relied on dogs for transportation by the late 1800s‚ which remained

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    Each year‚ billions of animals are brutally slaughtered‚ solely for the use of their fur for human needs. The fur industry is a completely unnecessary‚ inhumane‚ and cruel practice. Although some of our group members had prior knowledge on the industry‚ the group was shocked after researching and educating ourselves further on the horrors of the fur trade. Killing animals for fur is unnecessary‚ considering all the cruelty free options that we available today in our modern society. Besides the ethics

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    Final Report Residential Schools ‘‘It took 130 years to create this problem. It’s probably going to take us 130 years to undo it.’’ (The Canadian Press) This explaining what Residential Schools did for all these years. In the 19th century the Canadian government believed it was responsible for educating and care for the country’s aboriginal people. It though that native people best chance for success was to adopt Christianity and Canadian customs. This event was trying to make Aboriginal children

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    I enjoy listening to the speech of Audra Simpson because even is she is not an Indian woman herself; she feels concerned about the issues of Aboriginal people in Canada. She also mentioned the same problem about Indigenous people and the need to stop the oppression. I think to improve the conditions of Indian people; we should all feel concerned about those issues so that we can stop the marginalization and the murder of the Indigenous people especially woman. We see in advertise about immigration

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    major cultural groups‚ the Inuit and Aleut‚ and ignores major differences (including huge language variation) within each group. 2) Are there 100 words for snow in this particular language?  Explain. Eskimo surely has no words for snow at all. Does Eskimo have a word for the grey mist in a poor TV picture? Just how wide or narrow do we draw the boundaries‚ and how do we ensure we’re drawing them the same in the languages being compared? Now for some fun‚ go to The Great Inuit Vocabulary Hoax.  Should

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    Native American humor is dynamic. It has to be‚ in order to accurately reflect its source. To say that Native Americans are adaptable is an understatement. After years of marginalization‚ genocide‚ and silencing‚ they are still here‚ creating‚ living‚ and thriving. All Native comedy is not just about jokes‚ it’s about representation. Native American comedians making jokes is political‚ because their very existence is a political statement. Comedy is a medium that gives Native Americans the

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