Summary Of The Video 'Inequality In The Aboriginal Reserves'

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The main topic of the video is Inequality in the Aboriginal Reserves. The video shows how the Aboriginal people who live in Northern Manitoba are struggling to get water to use, lack of proper flush toilets and shortage of healthcare staff .One of the victims affected by this is an 82-year-old Moyer Taylor who suffers from diabetes and requires dialysis a few days a week. To make matters worse there is no running water and no bathroom in his house. Adam Keno is one of the residents also affected by the lack of clean running water in the Reserve; his son chips a hole in the ice and to get water to use. As a new immigrant to Canada, l was shocked to learn that there are people in Canada who still live in these conditions.

In the video Charity is shown by the Mennonite Central Committee, the agency is known for its humanitarian work in assisting people getting clean water ,they visited the Reserve to see how the Aboriginal people are suffering and how they can facilitate their charity work them. Social action is shown when a postcard was created; it featured a photo of a young boy whose face was covered with a rash, his eyes dark and without a sparkle. The card was part of a campaign by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs to raise awareness about the lack of safe and clean drinking water on many remote First Nations. It was addressed to Prime Minister Stephen

The social determinants of health in this video is Aboriginal Status, due to Colonization, relocation of families and residential schools has led to the adverse health outcomes for many Canadian Aboriginal people, overcrowding in homes ,food insecurity, and low income has caused increased rate of chronic illness and reduced life expectancy (Kozier ,2014) The broader social or political issue in Northern Manitoba Reserves is that the Government is not providing enough funding to develop these reserves. Once Aboriginal people were allowed off reserves, some of them relocated to larger cities for greener pastures. 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 (Center for central justice 2016).Aboriginal people face a lot of racism in other communities and some people have stereotyped them as alcoholics who do not like to work. In addition, In many Aboriginal communities,basic commodities like fruit, vegetables, and milk must be transported long distances because of bad roads and this results in high costs of food and poor food