First Nations

theatre traditions by First Nations peoples” (Langston and Chaulk 177). The reclamation of identity is prominent throughout the play and both Billingham’s as well as Langston and Chaulk’s articles allow for a further understanding of the text. Langston and Chaulk promote the idea in which “Highway argues that such theatre, like the women’s hockey league, is capable of stoking pride, community, reform, and the reclamation of tradition, and not only for Canada’s First Nations, but for colonized…

Constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal peoples: Indians (more commonly referred to as First Nations), Inuit and Métis. These are three distinct peoples with unique histories, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.” (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada). Aboriginal people are comprised of about 4.3% of the total Canadian population and are made of three main groups: First Nations 65%, Metis 30%, and Inuit 4%. Due to the diversity found in Aboriginal cultures, 60…

Approximately 300,000 immigrants have given up their loved ones, their careers, and their comfort to come to a great nation that offered them much more. In fact, about 5.8 million of the citizens in Canada were born in a different country, whether it be China, Russia or Pakistan. As of date, Canada is ranked has one of the most multicultural nations in the world. Proudly, Canada was the first country to establish the Canadian Multiculturalism Act in 1971, which calls for the preservation and…

The act was passed in hopes to relieve some of the French discontent towards the British and ensure citizen loyalty. It can be considered the first parliamentary statute to acknowledge the complexities of relations between the two dominate groups within Canada. The British used the Quebec Act to broaden their territorial borders of Quebec set out in the Royal Proclamation to the boundary of the…

band in North Vancouver and activist on the rights of First Nations in North America was a residential school student at the age five. He was stripped of his language, culture and family. The speech discussed the devastating ways in which the European settlers stole the native territory and culture. I think Chief George’s speech highlights how the Europeans ethnocentric mindset led them to believe that stripping, judging and abusing the First Nation culture was “helping them” or showing them…

Baskin states that the oppression of First Nations, as a result of colonization, exist to feed White privilege, a system that maintains domination above First Nations people (cite). For this reason, Baskin advocates the adoption of an Aboriginal perspective, understanding that accommodating structural social work to the Aboriginal’s belief systems encourages…

Aboriginal people are the first human beings to claim this land that we all call Canada. They are the ones that first made this land their home, and today we have taken that right from them. Aboriginal communities by far have the worst housing, less education and lower health status. This is not due to the mistakes they might have made, it is due to the mistakes that the media, the general public, and the mistakes from the government of Canada. As of April 1st 2015, there are 1750 aboriginal…

Issues with the French in Quebec, Chilean refugees, and with First Nations land claims were all problems in Canada’s society after the wars. First, the French in Quebec were worried about the survival of the French language, culture, and the separate identity of Quebec. After the wars were over, French Canadien nationalism was spreading and getting more…

had also wanted to get them signed by the aboriginals to get ownership over the lands. That is why the Federal government wanted the Aboriginal Peoples to sign the treaty to take their lands and have power and control over the lands giving the First Nations People only some lands (reserves) to have bands live on and to have the start oif assimulation. The government wanted supreme power and control over the lands to have more European settlers come in, to mine on the land, and to build the…

Calder V. British Columbia Attorney General [1973] SCR 313 Calder case is a pacesetter for aboriginal jurisprudence in Canadian supreme court. It is the first to recognize that aboriginal title to land exist as a sui generis type of right in Canada at the time of time of the Royal Proclamation Order of 1763 and does not devolve from the colonial, Crown law, treaty or statute. The main issue for determination in this case was whether Crown authority lawfully extinguished the aboriginal title to…