Aboriginal Challenges

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Aboriginal people and their challenges.
Losse of the native people.
Aborigines and their culture are different from other people who live in Canada. Aborigines population is increasing and this is between the ages of 1-14 years because young mothers or teen pregnancy is increasing amongst natives of Canada. This is becoming a big issue now a days because two parent families are half the children and the others are one parent or no parent. These families are living with their grandparents or with foster care. When the country is occupied by Europeans the aborigines lost their lands to the invaders and moved to interior villages in north and west. In the 1876 Indian act they underwent unfair treaty and the reason they can't afford to hire a …show more content…
They just need a roof to live, that’s all. They don’t plan or have high hopes about their future –no. Therefore, they don’t have a motivation to move away from their parents when they got married and so –no. That’s why women abuse, child abuse and things like that are happening more in the aboriginal communities. Most of them are in well-fare and don’t want to work. Have low income and their quality of life is very poor. The government workers, doctors and healthcare professionals are from other parts of Canada who work there. Their food costs are very expensive because of transportation costs to the western territories are very high and due to their remote areas. Therefore they spend most of their income into food which are not healthy for them. Government have to give them facility where they can get healthy food. It will be helpful to give them healthy food instead of money which they can spend on drug and …show more content…
They lack of power to spread their cultural activities throughout Canada. Still when the new parliament gathers the Inuits culture of rituals are followed for some time of the ceremony. They don’t go to school regularly. If they show interest in studies, there is a lot of facilities for them to encourage their own culture by improving and knowing better in the culture. But most of them don’t show interest towards their studies. Most of them are good hand work people and good artists. The anther reason was they don’t have many teachers to teach them because they live far away from the urban areas. Solution are when some students done university they can come to their own place and help them to study about their own
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