We do not like your kind: Threatening letter demands Alta. family'move out' This quote is from one of the adversities that Indigenous communities face in Canada. The social issue I am discussing, is the Indigenous racism in Canada, a problem that displays in many forms of discrimination, violence, and systemic injustices towards Indigenous groups, societies, and communities. Through this essay, I will explain the topic through three body paragraphs, the general adversity mentioned by Indigenous racism, the specific adversities that individuals face, and how those people both overcome or continue to face those adversities. Indigenous racism remains a major issue against Indigenous cultures, societies, and communities, including systemic discrimination …show more content…
The National Collaborating Center for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) (2005-2024). Charlotte Reading’s fact sheets illustrate how racism against Indigenous groups is embedded within Canadian institutions and policies, therefore leading to social exclusion and disparities in the health, justice, and social services for Indigenous people. The impact of racism on Indigenous women. Terese Marie Mailhot highlights the rising vulnerability of indigenous women to violence and lack of justice in certain crime cases. For example, the Joey English and Barbara Kentner case about First Nations women in Canada being four times more likely to go missing or be murdered than any other group of women, making indigenous women the “minority” of the population. Mailhot, T. M. 2017 April 10 -. This evidence highlights the challenges faced by women due to, the continuous cycle of racism and sexism leading to an occurrence of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. In Canada, Indigenous racism has a long history. The impact of discrimination, both systemic and personal, still occurs to this …show more content…
Manitoba’s social workers and police seized an Indigenous woman's newborn baby from a hospital because of a false accusation that the mother was drunk when she arrived at the hospital to give birth. After that, the mother was told she might not even see the baby again. Lambert. S. 2019, January 12. This evidence shows how Indigenous families face adversities due to being racially targeted and separated from their families by the child welfare system. The challenges experienced by people are a result of racism, which includes assaults and systemic prejudices that impact their daily lives and communities. In the face of adversity, Indigenous individuals and communities have many strategies to overcome or resist the Indigenous racism they encounter. Overcoming community solidarity and resistance that indigenous communities currently face. 13-year-old Jimmy Assiniboine insists on staying inside his home, demonstrating the overcoming of being pushed out of the neighbourhood by racially motivated hate threats. CTVNews.ca staff, 2019). This highlights the importance of standing your ground against adversity and developing a sense of
Her book focuses on the myriads of issues and struggles that Indigenous men and women have faced and will continue to face because of colonialism. During her speech, Palmater addressed the grave effects of the cultural assimilation that permeated in Indigenous communities, particularly the Indian Residential School System and the Indian Act, which has been extensively discussed in both lectures and readings. Such policies were created by European settlers to institutionalize colonialism and maintain the social and cultural hierarchy that established Aboriginals as the inferior group. Palmater also discussed that according to news reports, an Aboriginal baby from Manitoba is taken away every single day by the government and is put in social care (CTVNews.ca Staff, 2015). This echoes Andrea Smith’s argument in “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing” that colonialism continues to affect Aboriginals through genocide (2006, p. 68). Although such actions by the government are not physical acts of genocide, where 90% of Aboriginal population was annihilated, it is this modern day cultural assimilation that succeeded the Indigenous Residential School System and the Indian Act embodies colonialism and genocide (Larkin, November 4,
Fleras, Augie. “Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Repairing the Relationship.” Chapter 7 of Unequal Relations: An Introduction to Race, Ethnic and Aboriginal Dynamics in Canada. 6th ed. Toronto: Pearson, 2010. 162-210. Print.
This again shows the traumatic effects of residential schools and of cultural, psychological, and emotional upheaval caused by the intolerance and mistreatment of Aboriginals in Canada. Settlers not only displaced Aboriginal people from their land and their homes, but they also experienced emotional trauma and cultural displacement.
The framework of Canadian criminal law is designed to create legal systems that are fair and strive to protect all citizens, yet its application has often disproportionately impacted marginalized groups. From the beginning of settler colonization to the present day, Indigenous peoples in Canada have been stripped of their rights and freedoms in numerous ways. The Canadian criminal justice system and its application have further jeopardized the well-being of Indigenous peoples due to the continual maintenance of systematic oppression and colonialistic views. The first way in which the application of criminal law in Canada negatively impacts Indigenous individuals is through mistreatment done unto them by law enforcement personnel. To further
LaPrairie, C. (1995). Community justice or just communities? Aboriginal communities in search of justice. Canadian Journal of Criminology. 37 (4), 521-535.
The topic for our research paper is oppression against women in the Indian Act. Discrimination against Aboriginal people has been a key issue for many years; however society generally skims the surface of this act and tends to give lip service to it without acknowledging the deeper issue of how these oppressions come with it. In the beginning of our research we quickly made a parallel between the oppression of Aboriginal women and the injustices they face and the breakdown in Aboriginal families and communities. As future social workers working from an anti-oppressive practice perspective the proposed research will help acquire the knowledge in building transformative politicized social work. Our team feels that by focusing on the female gender and how these women throughout history have been oppressed we will be able to perform our roles as social workers from a truly empathetic position; thus our future work with all aboriginal people will be more effective.
The current generation of native people in Canada are greatly impacted by efforts made by the Canadian government that forced previous generations to assimilate and give up their culture. Most of the fifth generation of native people are not directly impacted by the atrocities that forced their people to give up their culture for the benefit of others; however, their diminished cultural identity is a result of it. Parents who are raising the fifth generation have difficulty passing on their Indian identity to their children (Deiter-McArthur 381). The parents and grandparents of the fifth generation were raised in the residential school system, where they were stopped from showing affection or love for one another even if it was their own brother or sister. This results in a lack of ability for some of them to show love toward their children (Maniitok). Another e...
Despite the decreasing inequalities between men and women in both private and public spheres, aboriginal women continue to be oppressed and discriminated against in both. Aboriginal people in Canada are the indigenous group of people that were residing in Canada prior to the European colonization. The term First Nations, Indian and indigenous are used interchangeably when referring to aboriginal people. Prior to the colonization, aboriginal communities used to be matrilineal and the power between men and women were equally balanced. When the European came in contact with the aboriginal, there came a shift in gender role and power control leading towards discrimination against the women. As a consequence of the colonization, the aboriginal women are a dominant group that are constantly subordinated and ignored by the government system of Canada. Thus today, aboriginal women experiences double jeopardy as they belong to more than one disadvantaged group i.e. being women and belonging to aboriginal group. In contemporary world, there are not much of a difference between Aboriginal people and the other minority groups as they face the similar challenges such as gender discrimination, victimization, and experiences injustice towards them. Although aboriginal people are not considered as visible minorities, this population continues to struggle for their existence like any other visible minorities group. Although both aboriginal men and women are being discriminated in our society, the women tends to experience more discrimination in public and private sphere and are constantly the targeted for violence, abuse and are victimized. In addition, many of the problems and violence faced by aborigin...
According to LaRocque (1994), there is a distinct connection here between the effects of colonization and the decreased well being of Aboriginals, with the greatest impact noticed upon Aboriginal women.
Thesis: Given the struggles aboriginals have had to face in Canada, the Canadian government should take action to
Health care inequities can be elucidated by the research that identifies the social, economic and political ideologies that reflect aspects of cultural safety (Crandon, 1986; O’Neil, 1989 as cited in Browne & Fiske, 2001). There are various factors that affect the mistreatment of aboriginal peoples as they access health care in local health care facilities such as hospitals and clinics. Aboriginal women face many barriers and are discriminated against as a result based on their visible minority status such as race, gender and class (Gerber, 1990; Dion Stout, 1996; Voyageur, 1996 as cited in Browne & Fiske, 2001). A study done on Aboriginal peoples in Northern B.C. showed high rates of unemployment, underemployment and dependency on social welfare monies (Browne & Fiske, 2001). This continued political economic marginalisation of aboriginal peoples widens the gap between the colonizers and the colonized. The existence of racial profiling of aboriginal peoples by “Indian status” often fuels more stigmatization of these people because other Canadians who do not see the benefits of compensations received with having this status often can be resentful in what they may perceive is another compensation to aboriginal peoples. The re...
Reed, Kevin, Natasha Beeds, and Barbara Filion. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2011. Print.
No community in Canada comes into conflict with criminal justice system officials more disproportionately than Aboriginals (Dickson-Gilmore, 2011, p.77). Indeed, Aboriginal Canadians are often subject to both overt and unintended discrimination from Canadian law enforcement due in large part to institutionalized reputations as chronic substance abusers who are incapable of reform (Dickson-Gilmore, 2011, p.77-78). One of the more startling contemporary examples of this is the case of Frank Paul; a Mi’kmaq Canadian who was left to die in a Vancouver alley by officers of the Vancouver Police Department after being denied refuge in a police “drunk tank”. Not surprisingly, this event garnered significant controversy and public outcry amongst Canada’s Aboriginal population who have long been subject to over-policing and persistent overrepresentation as offenders in the Canadian criminal justice system (Jiwani & Dickson-Gilmore, 2011, p.43 & 81).
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Similar to other marginalized groups affected by colonialism due to the government in power, the Indigenous peoples of Canada have struggled as a nation due to the unequal treatment they have encountered in the past. The governing bodies that control these Indigenous communities have continued to have colonialistic tendencies that attempt to put the ‘white man’s’ needs before the Indigenous peoples.