“Though this path is uncharted‚ I am confident that we will reach a place of reconciliation‚” Justin Trudeau. Fatty Legs: A True Story by‚ Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton. The consequences of residential schools impacted Margaret for the rest of her life‚ Margaret was abused and humiliated for being who she is as a native living in canada. The book has many social injustices‚ as an aspect of racism where she is persecuted for growing up with such a culture‚ the schools also having
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The two nations leading worldwide exploration are Spain and Portugal. There were many reasons that made Spain and Portugal the forerunners of worldwide exploration. Spain and Portugal‚ both located off the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a geographical advantage over other nations. This Peninsula allowed easy access into the Atlantic‚ which made it much easier to launch expeditions to the Americas. Spain and Portugal both sought out economic growth which led them to seek out new trade routes‚ leading to resources
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Lower Labrador Coast. Entertainers‚ for example‚ Shirley Montague and Gerald Mitchell recorded a hefty portion of the neighbourhood melodies. Another book of music and exploration‚ Music Traditions of the Labrador Coast Inuit‚ by Maija Lutz‚ showed up in 1982. New enthusiasm for Inuit society leads to the rise of a few native artists and gatherings. Byron "Fiddler" Chaulk was generally viewed as one of the district’s extraordinary musicians when of his demise in 1993. That same year a collection called
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cursors Inuit snow goggles function by reducing exposure to sunlight‚ not by reducing its intensity In prehistoric and historic time‚ Inuit peoples wore flattened walrus ivory "glasses‚" looking through narrow slits to block harmful reflected rays of the sun.[3] It is said that the Roman emperor Nero liked to watch gladiator fights with emeralds. These‚ however‚ appear to have worked rather like mirrors.[4] Sunglasses made from flat panes of smoky quartz‚ which offered no corrective powers but
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In Roman times and the 26th century in Europe‚ people viewed the lights as frightening omens‚ heralding the outbreak of war‚ plague‚ or death. The North American Inuit call the lights “aqsarniit”‚ or football players. They believe that the lights are the spirits of dead football players playing football with the head of a walrus. In China‚ Auroral sightings are very rare and the Chinese believed the lights were a
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students. Despite the program being created in good faith and containing revolutionary concepts‚ it was eventually evicted from the curriculum by enraged parents and conservative politicos. The core of the program was a film series which followed an Inuit family living in remote Canada. The footage showed the life and culture of the Netsilik Eskimos‚ a culture which had remained unchanged by the outside world until the late 1910’s. The Eskimos’ way of life in extreme isolation offered an interesting
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In Thomas King’s novel‚ Green Grass Running Water‚ one of the most important messages is the need to accurately tell Indigenous Peoples’ history and the importance of fixing problems plaguing them. Throughout the story‚ it is metaphorically referred to as “fixing up this world‚” by the four elders. In their quest to fix the world‚ a creation story is retold many times until they are able to get it right‚ showing the need to accurately represent Indigenous history. The two articles mentioned Canadians
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together in order to successfully grow crops to feed meaning they learn conformity from the age of children. This compared to the Inuits of Baffin Island in Canada who relied more on hunting and fishing which is done on their own so they learn to be more individual from a young age. The concept of individualism versus collectivism is seen here. Berry found that Inuits were almost non-conforming whereas the Temne showed a high degree of conformity. A limitation of Berry’s experiment would be that
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As these deals proceeded they did not consult First Nations‚ Metis or the Inuit. The HBC received three hundred thousand euros in return to giving the land back to the British Crown. They also received lots of land. On December 1‚ 1869 Canada gained control over Rupert’s land. However‚ surveyors were sent by the minister of public
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Summer Assignment: Survival of the Sickest Introduction (1)What is the “big” question the book will attempt to answer? "Why would evolution allow seemingly harmful genetics t be passed through the gene pool?" Chapter I (2)The author points out many ways in which iron impacts life. Identify/describe at least five. 1. Hemoglobin to carry oxygen 2. oceans "seeded" with iron can hold more oxygen producing organisms. 3. Parasites feed on human iron. 4. Cancer cells thrive on human
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