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The Pros And Cons Of Corruption Of Aboriginal People

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The Aboriginal peoples are seen as lazy and unwilling to do the work Canada presents them. Canada views are very skewed toward the Indigenous people;“In January of 2013, a community paper in Manitoba, the Morris Mirror, ran an editorial by its editor-in-chief, Reed Turcotte, that likened Indigenous peoples to terrorists and declared our ‘corruption and laziness’”(Vowel,117 ) This indicate how some Canadians view the Aboriginal peoples as corrupted and lazy. This isn’t clear cut as some Indigenous don’t have the benefit of a lot of money since Aboriginal peoples culture relied on hunting and trading. Today, that market is in a decline as competition grows, species are hunted to extinction, and Canadian overturns hunting groundings into lands …show more content…

The Aboriginal peoples community took up arms too and since this was a non-government controlled, organized group, people got angry at this vigilantism. Media controls societies and the media is very one sided, reinforcing the notion the Aboriginal peoples are the bad guys in this situation. This reinforcement allows claims like by Reed Turcotte in the quote to pass with less of a critical judgement. There were Canadians that were rattled by these claims despite this fact, people use this example to strengthen the views of corrupt Aboriginal peoples. “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” exaggerate this idea of laziness further by having the Indigenous peoples do nothing but be trophies;“Hudson considered allowing them to hunt, but Vince had talked him out of it...And there were the grooming costs-he had been lucky to someone who would come out so he didn’t have to take the Indians into town-and the clothing repairs”(King,9) The evidence shows that the Indigenous peoples aren’t in a good situation as Aboriginal peoples lives are being controlled by someone …show more content…

This idea prevents the necessary action that should be in place to fix the lives of the oppressed; “The fact that people are able to outright dismiss literally centuries of oppression as though this could have no possible impact on event today, or claim that we somehow deserved to be colonized, or even flat out deny prior Indigenous presence(like Morissette) never cease to astound me. How is this even possible? Clearly the first step, as exemplified by Klassen, is to claim good intentions negate oppression.”(Vowel,119) This finding indicates how unjustifiably Canadian sees Canadians. Canadians think by saying Canadians didn’t know about the negative consequences of the action that no one is to blame. This is inexcusable and Canada pays for reparation to the Indigenous peoples. Peoples act ignorant and outright deny the presence of Aboriginal peoples on this land to save the Canadian reputation of being morally good. These people assure themselves that they did no wrong and it wasn’t anyone's fault. Canadians are too proud and want people to know Canadians are the right people . These thoughts aren’t an excuse to disempower the Indigenous people. They showed pay the reparations for the type of conflicts Canada has brought upon the Indigenous community. People want to maintain the status quo of not being the bad guy. Canada wants to see itself as a good nation with good people,

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He present this by discussing the illegality of the treaties pertaining to the Indian Act being passed, the government not fulfilling their treaty promises, the government starving the aboriginals, and by oppressing them and stealing their land. The interpretation of the situation by Harring does differ James Daschuk’s. Harring explicitly states that the aboriginals were starved on purpose “local Indian Affairs authorities were given direct orders to starve able-bodied Indian men and issued inadequate rations for Indian women and children” (Harring 120), when Daschuk only provides information pertaining to the famine, and not that it was done on purpose. Harring was the most convincing as he blatantly blames the government for the harm caused on the aboriginals and sets the stage for how maltreated the aboriginals were by the government. Conclusively, James Daschuk provides two fairly convincing chapters, pertaining to the aboriginal people in Western Canada and on the plains, who were ravaged with disease, fighting, famine and an immense loss of land.

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They continued to resist against the Canadian government's attempts to assimilate them, and to use their land for projects that would cause their communities harm, such as building oil pipes, and an incredible amount of other causes impacting Indigenous peoples. Throughout the history of Indigenous people, before Canada was even a country, they have resisted the attempts of colonizers to take their land, and attempt to take their culture as well. Paragraph #2 for Response Questions #4 A specific historical moment mentioned in the timeline that connects particularly well to “The Right to be Cold” by Sheila Watt-Cloutier is the education heading in Dr. Susan Dion’s talk. The policy paper detailing more Indigenous control of their own communities' education under the Education headline was fought for by the National Indian Brotherhood, and it led to the Canadian government giving back control of Indigenous education back to Indigenous people.

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Furthermore, the Indigenous peoples needed to be protected and be given a say in how they would manage their additional territory. Not assimilated or as Sir Francis Bond Head, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada would say, isolated “from all contact with whites, [where] the Indigenous way of life would eventually disappear” (Forsythe, 2023a, para. 3. Then, the sand is sanded. This was hypocritical, as what made the British thrive during the War was the Indigenous way of combat which made them have the “reputation.

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Many Aboriginals have tried to push for equality, as Maria’s father did when he was trying to unite the people and create “an organization that the government couldn’t ignore.” (73). However, this is largely not the case as many aboriginals are under represented or have been denied their entitlements through a fair court case. The unfair representation of Metis has caused those to give up and ridicule those who do, an example of such ridicule is when others of the community ridiculed Maria’s father for enacting for political change, sarcastically saying “Saskatchewan has a new Reil.” (74) As stated by Kelly L. Saunders in “the hunt for justice: Metis harvesting rights and the pursuit of self government”, “the governments denied that metis collectivities existed, denied that they were aboriginal, denied their aboriginal treaty rights, and denied that government had any legal obligations towards the Metis.”

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I do agree with what Hardwick said about how if people are to understand Indigenous history, it is important to start from the beginning and ignore the settler mindset and break this colonial education system (Hardwick, 115). Like Hardwick said, “only then will meaningful change and reckoning be possible” (Hardwick, 115). While reading this article and seeing just how the settler ignorant mindset has been imposed on the young minds of students, I felt angry. While I can not relate to the pain and hardships of the Indigenous people in Canada, I understand how angry they are with the Canadian

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The way that the rest of the world views Canadians and their indigenous people is very different to how they truly are, and how Canadians view and treat their indigenous people. In the 2010 Vancouver Olympics there was a lot of controversy concerning the logo for the games. The logo is what many may call a inukshuk but really it is a inunguat which is a representation of a man and not what the Vancouver Olympics symbolized it to be Inukshuk’s will never be shaped like they were ( news paper) . There were many other flaws from the dances chosen to preform and the contradictory fact that the land used to create the venues were where crucial to the indigenous people. This was a great chance to show the world our history and our first nations people, but I doesn’t seem fair after years of neglect to portray to the world a scud notion of how aboriginals are and were treated.

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