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Poverty within indigenous family's in Canada

What needs to be done

Third world

The government needs to increase funding for education, healthcare, social services and direct welfare payments to families with children, as well as support for indigenous adults. The government needs to take action. Poverty needs to stop among aboriginal communities.Back in may 2000 an ecoli out break killed seven people and it made headlines but no one seems to care about aboriginal people living every day with unsanitary drinking water and getting ill from it. Wake up Canada!!!

From living in uninsulated homes to sheds to portables and no running water or plumbing in the cree community this is considered as third worldly. You would never expect this to be happening in Canada. Aboriginal communities ultimately need support and money. The situation is not right and more people need to be aware of what is going on . It is unfair that thousands of aboriginals live in poverty.

Drinking water supply

Income gap

Depression

Manitoba reserves have some of the worst water problems in the country. Six per cent of homes on reserves in that province have no water service at all. Recent attention from local media and a Liberal motion in the House of Commons prompted Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan to announce that the government would spend $5.5 million to help improve infrastructure in the four communities that make up the Island Lake First Nations, including Wasagamack.Even when water is available, it is often inadequately treated or compromised by corroded pipes and aging distribution systems. More than 120 First Nations communities were under a Health Canada water advisory.

What do the chiefs have to say on the issues?

A recent survey shows that about 70% of First Nations adults living on reserves felt in balance physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. And, among Aboriginal people living both on and off reserve, those who did experience a mental health problem were much more likely than the rest of Canadians to seek professional help a positive step towards healing. In some groups, the number of Aboriginal people seeking help was as high as 17%—compared to the Canadian average of 8%. These numbers would probably have been even higher if more mental health professionals were available in isolated areas. Causes of depression in aboriginals are living in poverty, being ashamed of there culture, and being constantly dehumanized by society

Plumbing

"The gap between First Nations and …Canadians has, seemingly, over the last few generations just grown so deep," said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo in an interview. "A lot of it has to do with maybe even 'out of sight, out of mind' — not knowing what's happening in places like northern Saskatchewan or northern Manitoba.

"Even newborn babies are residing in these sheds, and there's no water hookup and no hydro hookup," Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence said.

For most Canadians, an unlimited supply of clean water flowing freely from a tap and simply disposing there waste at the simple push of a lever is a given; for many First Nations, it's a luxury their communities can't afford. For the Cree community, outhouses are used all year round even in freezing temperatures. Slop pails are also used. The contents are constantly hauled away by sewage trucks.The last time they had something done, federal officials said in three years' time we'll do more water lines. five years has passed now and nothing has been done because the money is tied up elsewhere.

Money gets diverted to other communities with their own water problems, and projects get delayed. Meanwhile, the price of materials and transportation to get them to the remote fly-in community rises, and by the time the money does become available, it doesn't cover the full cost of the original project.

In an attempt to rid themselves of poverty many aboriginals have left there reserves. Instead of employment opportunities or even relief in the form of charity, many Aboriginal people were faced with racist attitudes that had already been long entrenched in Canadian society. This leads to a high income gap between whites and aboriginals

There is a 28.8% gap between the wages of the aboriginal population and the rest of Canada. Across the Aboriginal identity groups, the Métis had the highest median income at nearly $28,000, followed by the Inuit with just less than $25,000 and First Nations people with a median income of approximately $19,000. The reason for such a low income is due to high drop out rates in high school and racism.

Aboriginal people tend to make less regardless of sex, location or education level with one major exception, the study found: the 14 per cent of aboriginal women with at least an undergraduate degree tend to earn $2,471 more than non-aboriginal women with the same education level.

Wasagamack First Nation in Manitoba

Health concern

From the low income that aboriginals on reserves live off they cannot afford to make investments in there homes. There are consistent issues of mold in homes all throughout reserves. Among aboriginal communities they are 8 times higher to get tuberculosis than the rest of Canada

Living conditions on reserves in Canada

Housing

Three northern Ontario reserves off of James Bay declared a state of emergency in late September of 2013, because of a housing shortage.

One of them, Attawapiskat, about 500 kilometres north of Timmins, Ont., has resorted to housing people in uninsulated sheds, wood-frame tents heated by wood stoves and donated construction trailers, where some families have been living for two years already.

This boy's rash is from a mold infestation in a home in the northern Ontario First Nations community of Fort Albany.

Schools on reserves are highly under funded by the government. Teachers are paid less than average. The structure of the school building itself is usually a portable. These portables have no heating or cooling systems and are uninsulated.Education is the foundation which First Nations communities must use to improve their

social and economic conditions. Like all others in Canada, Aboriginal children need to acquire an acceptable education to have a chance of succeeding in the modern economy. An acceptable

education is more than high school graduation . A post-secondary diploma or degree, or a trade certificate, is required – but high school graduation is the door through which most students must

pass to go on to post-secondary schooling. The most recent Census statistics, backed up by departmental data, show that this door is shut for the majority of students on reserve due to poor conditions

In Wasagamack First Nation, a remote northern Manitoba community, the majority of residents have no indoor plumbing and rely on outhouses, slop pails and frequent trips to a communal water station. Such living conditions also pose a health risk.The same is true across the border in Pikangikum, an Ojibwa community in north western Ontario where 70 per cent of the population is under 25 and which has had an alarming number of suicides among youth. 33% of aboriginals experience food insecurity as well.

Poverty/inequality

The roots of poverty for Aboriginal communities can be traced back to the forced relocation of Aboriginal peoples onto plots of land that are called Reserves. With no planning, infrastructure or economy set up, Aboriginal people were restricted to small plots of land. The destruction of traditional ways of living, combined with the poorly organized set-up of reserves resulted badly for those living on reserve. Many Aboriginal people died due to lack of shelter, food, health care and money. To worsen the problem the Canadian government put tight restrictions on relief efforts to reserves, resulting in an even higher level of poverty.

Introduction

http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=aboriginal-issues

Canada is a great place to live in but still has its many secrets.What most people don't know is 1 in 4 aboriginal children live in poverty and go hungry. 17.8% of adults go hungry due to lack of money in Canada and live in poverty.Half of status First Nations children in Canada live in poverty, a troubling figure that jumps to nearly two-thirds in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.Aboriginal families in Canada struggle every day to support there children and put food on the table. It is a disturbing situation that needs to be addressed. We think of Canada as a wealthy country yet 3.5 million people live in poverty.

Challenges Facing Aboriginal children in Canada today

Schools

Half of Canada’s status First Nation children live in poverty, according to a new report.The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Save the Children Canada used 2006 census data to show just how bad it is. Aboriginal people are the youngest and fastest growing segment of our population, and the report’s findings paint a startling picture of how different groups within these communities are. Indigenous children, status and non-status First Nation, Metis and Inuit — have a poverty rate of 40 per cent, more than twice the national average. For status First Nation children it’s a staggering 50 per cent, while the non-status, Metis and Inuit rate is 27 per cent.The difference between these groups is that status First Nation families receive funding from the federal government for core services while the other groups get funding at the provincial level. Federal transfers are capped at a two per cent rise each year to keep up with inflation, but does not account for population growth or other needs. The report shows that children under federal jurisdiction are faring far worse than Metis, Inuit and non-status First Nation families

There are over 500 schools on reseve in Canada suffering lack of access to reliable running water, computers, libraries and experienced teachers. 60% of students on reserves do not graduate from high school. Their is also a $2000-3000 funding gap between on reserve and off reserve schools.

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