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Indigenous Studies 100 is a course that serves important knowledge to any university student in Canada. This is a course that deals with contemporary issues and our history as a country. It is of equal importance to other classes that are mandatory throughout our lives in university. This essay will discuss the importance of a mandatory Indigenous Studies 100 course. In this paper I will attempt to explain why the issues and history that have happened, or are currently happening in our country…

individual is traumatic in various levels of consciousness. We see a variety of changes in the individual’s cognitive health, emotional health, and psychological health, which in turn leads to physical health. Through the process of promoting the Cree language as stated in the article, we are opposing the original assimilation of the past. With hopes, this will be a starting point of our future. Christianization Christianization was the process of converting indigenous people to a Christian…

amplify the horrific changes the boarding schools made to the kids and their heritage. The film begins with a shot of nature rolling past the camera in a sunrise bright blue and pink. Suddenly, the camera shifts view to a muted yellow vehicle in which a Cree child is being driven by an older man. Before the scene shifts to the mother, the camera focuses on the little girl staring out of the dark brown window. In this first…

THE LAST MERMAID… Mara and the Little Dolphin Kay Life 419 Southwick Rd. B-7 Westfield, MA 01085 (413)562-6418 kaylife419@comcast.net COVER PAGE (KL COVER F) BLANK PAGE BLANK PAGE (Or Summary and Biography?) KL TITLE PAGE LEFT F KL TITLE PAGE RIGHT F (WITH THE FOLLOWING): - THE LAST MERMAID... IN THE TOP LEFT BUBBLE - Mara and the Little Dolphin BELOW THE TOP LEFT BUBBLE - By Kay Life IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT BUBBLE DEDICATION PAGE ON LEFT Dedication: Love to my wonderful…

Some of these laws include: The Sexual Offenses Act 2003, this act made it an “offense for an adult over 18 to groom a child under 16 for sex” (Cree, n.d, p. 772). Additionally, the act included a provision that made sex tourism illegal. Other laws include the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act (TVPA), this act helps to combat trafficking in person and also includes a provision…

Brian's Hunt The reason I choose this Brian’s Hunt book is because of the illustration and the cover is relatively interesting to me. The book is authored by Gary Paulsen and published in 2003. As the main character, Brian Robeson had a plane accident when he was 14 years old. After two years, he doesn’t want to live in a busy city, but he wants to live in the wilderness of Canada, where it had so many trees and wild animals with an adventurous life. At the age of 16, Brian wanted to live alone…

makes us human in the darkest of times? Time after time people from all around the world go through tough times and for some it changes their morals and ideals. How do these events change people? Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden tells the story of two Cree boys that face the terrors of war. Similarly, Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is about two young men in China experiencing re-education in the time of the Cultural Revolution. These stories both convey a message that the…

can barely see. However, when they get to Gods Lake they say they understand the name. The quote, “Such sights as this are reserved for those who will suffer to behold them” ties back to when they said God’s Lake is the most beautiful Lake every. The Cree would do anything to protect their Lake and they respect it because they want it to stay beautiful. The second quote, “There is a cleanliness, a breadth and sweep and strength in the north,…

Boyden’s Depiction of Justifiable Murder in Three Day Road Like most great war novels, Three Day Road is about death. However, Boyden’s incorporation of Cree spiritualism and views on morality, good, and evil treats death with a reverence that is atypical of that genre. Even still, deaths in Three Day Road can be divided into two categories - callous and personal deaths. Callous deaths are those such as the death of a young private by flamethrower or the sniping of a German machine gun operator…

Mrs. Universe. First Nation refers to the groups of native peoples in Canada that have no ties to the Inuit/Eskimo or the Metis: a group comprised of those with Native American and European ancestry. (Metis Nation 2007) Callingbull belongs to the Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. Controversy has been raised not for her title, but for how she is using it. Callingbull has been using her newfound platform to promote advocacy for First Nation people. (Bhatia 2015) She has utilized this position to…