Decriminalization Of Indigenous People In Canada

Ever since the first contact that settlers had with indigenous or Aboriginal people, there has always been discrimination towards those natives because they were thought to be lesser individuals. This is the first time in Canadian history where a certain social group were marginalized, this is because the white people that first settled in Canada looked at indigenous people and they believed that didn’t belong in their newly established society. In todays society we have laws that prevent decriminalization but, that still does not resolve the problem because indigenous people are being murdered, assaulted, raped and treated as second class citizens. The underlying problems that help illustrate why so many missing and murdered indigenous woman,

Native people around Canada are looked at as, an independent group of people who do not get support from the government because, they are very much removed from society so everybody thinks that they have no problems which need support from the Canadian government. For example, when we look at Aboriginal people we think that they are a group of people who live in the middle of nowhere, because they want to be removed for society. In fact, it is the opposite because from the start of the government, indigenous people were forced to move away from society because they did not want to share the same beliefs as white people. This labelled them as being anti-government, which posed them as people who do not need help from the government. This is problematic because Canada really has a problem with murdered and missing indigenous woman and if the Canadian government won’t support indigenous people. There will be a big uproar from the indigenous community because they are not treated as equals, according to the charter of rights and

They are looked at as second class citizens, because they do not express the same beliefs as people who live in our current society. For example, as indigenous women go into poverty, they are more likely to be affiliated with gangs or bad people, they join bad groups so that they would be able to bring food home or being able to provide for them selves. “Roxanne is one of hundreds of missing or murdered indigenous women in Canada. Women who were born into lives that forced them to fight for survival in communities rife with poverty, trauma, abuse and, inevitably, violence.” (Hildebrandt: CBC news). This is an example of a young girl who was murdered, because living inside a community where poverty was a big issue, somebody decided to kill her because of reasons unknown, but it is implied that poverty was an underlying problem that contributed to this murder. This ties back to my thesis because it shows how people are so desperate living in those conditions that they decide to murder, or they decide to completely desert their community, in which they end up