TRC Report On Aboriginal Children

Overall, after reading the article I have learned that we all need support whether it is from our families, friends, co-workers, or teachers. We all need someone to talk to just like Indigenous Youths at camp Niigan Mosewak it is good to see that they are “Put their best foot forward.” In getting the help they need. I have a couple of friends who are Aboriginal People and I would like to learn more about their cultures so I would be asking a lot of questions because I want to know more I want to learn more.

The Indian Act is the principle document through which the parliament administers indian status. This act discriminated lot of First Nations rights and freedoms. The Indian act was first signed in 1876, critics argue that the act assumes that federal government officials are the best judges of the needs for the First Nation people. In a recent conversation with an Aboriginal social worker. We discussed how this changed her worldview as her children are leaving in the end of the summer to residential schools. She complained that her children are going to forget who they are and what they represent for their ancestors, and their legacies will turn into fantasies. As she continued she mentioned how the government is trying to assimilate First

In conclusion, the Indian Status should be modified, not destroyed; therefore, First Nations should be able to identify as what they are but still have the same rights as everyone else. Residential schools did more child abuse than they did teaching, inflicting pain and shaming young children isn’t education and will never lead to it. In addition, how are the Aboriginals supposed to trust Canadians and adapt to the Euro-Canadian lifestyle if the government blatantly lies to

To begin with, colonization began when first contact was made between Indigenous peoples of Canada and Europeans. At first the settlers were humble to Indigenous peoples and learnt how to survive the diverse land of what is known as Canada. As settlers began getting established in Canada, the land began getting taken over by Europeans. The signing of treaties was a mechanism used to divide and conquer the lands from Indigenous peoples. Indian reserves were created to separate different tribes and land was claimed for natives to live on. According to ….. the land given was not very healthy and did not accommodate the way first nation peoples lived. Next, the Indian Act was established in hopes to absorb “ indianess” and in hopes would expire therefore eliminating the existence of “indianess”.

Aboriginal Children and Residential Schools: A Comparison Between Australia and Canada Amanda Fairhurst Concordia University Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 2 The Beginning of Residential Schools......................................................................................... 2 The Loss of Oneself...................................................................................................................... 4 Reconciliation...............................................................................................................................

This process resulted in many of Indigenous women losing their status, power, and ties to their culture. Not only was this process damaging to one’s sense of self, it created divisions within the community and introduced a system of racial hierarchy among Indigenous peoples. The Indian Act was a colonial process intended to to conduct cultural genocide through gender discrimination. The effects of the Indian Act have resulted in significant social, political and economic disadvantages that continue to affect Indigenous women today.

European expansion is responsible for internal colonialism and displacing of the Native American Indians; from the reservation system used to isolate and contain the Native Americans to the forced assimilation carried out through boarding schools. Education has always been a major part of the oppression of the Native American population, after boarding schools, separate public schools followed, and even when finally allowed to attend mainstream public schools, the education system continued to fail the Native American. Teachers treated students as if they were unable to learn and thus ignored the need for educating the Native American. Unless the attitudes of educators towards the Native American students change and we begin to recognize and promote Native American history and cultures, decolonization will never be achieved. Unfortunately our own government and the media ignore the problems facing Native Americans, perhaps in hopes that the problems will just go away, but more

With clear feeling of cultural superiority prominent among the English, the opinions of the Natives in most aspects were unasked, unspoken, and unheard. Unlike the Metis, who had some semblance of ideas of European culture, First Nations were treated as children and were commonly duped through ignorance in terms of land, agriculture, and money. A national policy of cultural erasure was also prominent within the government. Within the Indian act of 1867, potlatches and native spiritual ceremonies like the Sun dance were banned and native children were forced into residential schools. Reserves were also handed to the First Nations, and were considered imprisonment. The justification of these actions were that they thought First Nation's nomad lifestyle as an impediment to society. These actions were done with the specific purpose in mind of removing First Nation culture, and the resulting creation of a society dependent on the government was deliberate. This is an example of a systematic erasure of a minority culture and persists in modern day

Eventually, these structural grounds caused for Europeans to exercise a form of cultural genocide through residential schooling. The idea to establish residential schools for First Nations children was greatly influenced by the desire to assimilate and supposedly adapt the various First Nations

Honorable Minister Kai, Today I present my provisional report on the Aboriginal incarceration rates. As you know the Prime Minister in his Closing the Gap speech mentioned the indigenous community being deprived of jobs and education, which are important issues that require further investigation. However he hasn’t discussed the high rates of incarcerated indigenous people and the impact, which can have adverse effects on many other aspects such as education and job seeking. I have conducted wide research and gathered extensive data and evidence on the recent statistics graphing the evident difference in the incarceration levels between indigenous and non-indigenous people.

As they planned this idea with the churches across Canada, it became an unforgettable event for the native people. “The implementation of the Indian Act (1876), the government was required to provide Aboriginal youth with an education and to integrate them into Canadian society” (Miller). These schools changed the way native people lived in Canada. The children in these schools were abused and neglected everyday as a punishment. The reason for this is that the students would talk to other students in their native languages and this caused mayhem for teachers to abuse them in terrible ways. They were hit by sticks and they would use anything else as a weapon to teach them a lesson (Hanson). The treatment in these schools were awful that some were physically changed in appearance. The teachers would give them verbal abuse as well if they continue to do small mistakes. The treatments the children were given resulted in really high death toll rates (Hanson). As this continued the Canadian government wanted to “kill the Indian in the child” (Hanson) to modernize the native children. It was a rule of the government so they can have no native cultures left in the future and remove the unwanted languages of the past.

What is the government doing for them, in order to help them? The Canadian government’s promises towards the First Nations are being neglected. This research paper explores the mistreatment of aboriginals to this day. This is proven by the government stealing the First Nations land, also the government putting the aboriginal community into reserves, and finally the discrimination that has and is still occurring towards the First Nations.

Aboriginal child welfare agencies are required to follow provincial and territorial legislations to accommodate differing circumstances across the country and to share information on local problems and solutions. Often times, child welfare agencies across Canada do not follow a single definition of “child maltreatment” that would result in a child being removed from home. Thus, each province is responsible for their individual governing practices, policies and structures. The overarching goal is to provide culturally appropriate services for their populations which involve different systemic responses and varied service delivery models that attempt to better provide for the needs of Aboriginal children and their families.

“The fear I carry and the aversion I feel towards governmental departments is due entirely to inter-generational trauma. My mother carries this fear, my grandmother carried this fear, and my great-grandmother carried this fear,” (Quotation mark) said Kelly Briggs. Aboriginal Canadians are still instilled with dread and animosity from the negligence of human rights that they were deprived from. Aboriginal Canadians do not receive the respect, impartiality or justice they deserved. Many rights of the Aboriginal Canadians were neglected. Canada prides itself on, the great variety of cultures, ethnicities, races and religions, which occupies this country. However, the Canadian government and society did not acknowledge the Aboriginals or the

Throughout Canadian history, Indigenous children, families and communities have been aggressively assimilated through Canadian government policies (Baskin, 2011). The combination of colonization, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and other discriminating tactics has damaged Indigenous cultures, weakened parenting capacity, and challenged economic self-sufficiency. Many Aboriginal people live in communities that experience high levels of poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, suicides, incarceration rates, unemployment rates, and other social problems. Today, Indigenous child are disproportionately represented in the Child Welfare System. The National Household Survey (2011) indicated that 48% of 30,000 children and youth in foster care