Prejudice & Discrimination: Aboriginals

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Highway of Tears

Residential Schools

History of Prejudice and Discrimination

Effect of Colonization on Aboriginals

Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women

Cultural Mockery

Significant Issues

Solutions

Media Representation

First Contact

-Traditional aboriginal clothing is joked upon and disrespected

Prejudice and Discrimination: Indigenous People

-A 724 kilometer stretch of highway along Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia

-There are 23 First Nations which border the highway

-A large number of the missing or murdered Indigenous women either had their bodies found there or disappeared there

-All colonization/settlement took place with little to no recognition from Indigenous people

-Europeans/settlers described Aboriginals as savages and uncivilized/primitive people

-The colonies in Eastern Canada made life very difficult for the Beothuk tribe though they were tolerant of European fishing/living

-They did not know what European life entailed (religion, property ownership, politics)

-John Cabot, an Italian explorer for England reaches Newfoundland and Labrador in 1497, later coming to Cape Breton (Nova Scotia)

-First contact with the Indigenous people, he came to call them Indians

-He took possession of what is now St. John's on behalf of King Henry VII

-No settlements made

-19th century Canadian government saw themselves responsible for the education and care of Aboriginal children

-Opened up residential schools

-church run, government funded institutions

-Massive effort to assimilate Indigenous people

-taught in English, forced Catholicism, mandatory attendance (monitored by government agents)

-Students endured physical and emotional abuse, sometimes even sexual abuse

-Caused children to be ashamed of their Native heritage and to not fit within their home lifestyle

-Tax benefits

-Cost reparations

-Outreach programs

-Indigenous people are often overlooked in the news and in the media

-Indigenous people are often portrayed as victims or aggressors

-Stories covering Aboriginal issues often carry a bad narrative

-A common stereotype of Aboriginal people is the "Indian" made known in Western films

-Mental health

-Education

-Living conditions

-Over the past 30 to 40 years numerous Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered in Canada

-The exact number is disputed but some estimates are as high as 500 people

-The government did not put much if any focus on these tragedies until 2015 when it became a major part of the Liberal Party platform

-Though some of the women have been identified, many of their cases have remained open for decades

Cultural Appropriation

French Settlers

by Simon Ntagkinis, Tanya Pineda, and Morgan Cameron

-Taking a cultural style or artifact and using it for a completely unrelated reason than it's original intent

-The exact number of women who have disappeared from this area is often disputed

-The RCMP acknowledges 18 murders (10 of which being Indigenous women)

-Indigenous groups argue that there are up to 50

-British Columbia has the highest rate of unsolved murders of Indigenous women in Canada

-The RCMP looked into the cases from 1981 to 2005 to no avail

-King of France send people to settle North America in 1524

-They sailed up the coast to the Hudson Mouth River towards Cape Breton

-They deemed eastern Canada, Arcadia