“It happened so long ago, why don’t they just get over it?” This a common comment often made by those who do not understand how deeply Indigenous Canadians are affected by intergenerational trauma. The most notable interconnection of intergenerational trauma and Canadian Indigenous people is Indian residential schools, where children and youth were removed from their homes, communities and most importantly from their families. The epidemic aftermath of Indian residential schools is unbelievably staggering…
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left a gaping wound, a legacy etched by the stolen children and broken families they left behind. Survivors carry these scars, not just inheriting them for themselves, but for their communities and future generations as well. Furthermore, intergenerational trauma, the emotional and physical harm inflicted through historical oppression and passed down through families from one generation to the next, is a direct consequence of the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse they endured in these institutions…
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Cultural Identity of the Aboriginal Population in Canada The residential school system in Canada is a network of church-run boarding schools. It was established by the government in 1840s to forcibly assimilate indigenous children coming into Canada from the First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities into the dominating Canadian culture (Hanson, 1). The system has tried to suppress and replace Aboriginal culture and identity by forcing the children attending these facilities to abandon their culture…
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Potential thesis There are many Indigenous women and girls who are missing and/or murdered in Canada. Colonization is the reason many Indigenous women are going missing and murdered in Canada due to the fear, racism and other colonization tactics to make this group vulnerable. The missing and murdered rate is much higher for Indigenous women and it seems as if the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is doing very little for the Indigenous communities. Indigenous women are the main target in the colonization…
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Name: David Fanhbulleh Course: Colonization and aboriginal peoples Studies Identity is a highly charged subject for Aboriginal people, owing largely to colonial efforts to eradicate Aboriginal identities as a part of the colonial project in Canada. The social and cultural legacies of this history continue to be experienced very profoundly today and generate deep tensions that often manifest in troubling and unexpected ways in classrooms. This course provided of the historical and social circumstances…
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Generational Trauma within Native American Families. Khalan Smart Black Hills State University PSYCH 202: Psychology Major Dr. Cheryl Anagnopoulos April 26, 2024 Abstract: What is Generational Trauma and How it Affects Native American Families? Generational trauma is the events passed down within a family, whether its repeated behaviors or actions. This trauma can be within behaviors, relationship consequences, environmental influences, and cultural associations (Colls 2022). Within Native…
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EDUC 5173 PJ Final Assignment: Alice Bogorin Lesson Planning in Language Arts in a Cross Curricular Context Language Arts Final Assignment: Cross Curricular Lesson Content Subject Area: Social Studies Content Subject Strand: Strand A Topic/Theme: Ways of Life Grade: 04 Time Frame: Week 1 of a cross-curricular unit of study; to include planning and the first, introductory lesson of the unit. Learning Goals: Language Arts Learn how to use different strategies before, during, and after reading, listening…
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on Aboriginal people in Canada is the residential school atrocity. I say atrocity because it attempted cultural genocide and to me that is an atrocity. This all happened in a country that is seen to have the nicest people and be a great place to live .The fact that these native children were given a substandard education, were neglected, abused, malnourished, taken from their families and literally ripped from their cultural existence is horrific. The effects of this trauma have lived through generations…
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My existence follows a script written decades before my birth. It strips away my individuality, following a meticulously designed screenplay which would earn a 100% rating from those creating the plot line, akin to the rotten tomatoes of our world. This status quo is an impenetrable wall of steel. Power dynamics sculpted through centuries of colonization trap us into a role in society, unaffected by how hard we work or the amount we care. The fluidity of one’s identity, branching out from collective…
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Intermediate determinants of HCV among Indigenous peoples While proximal determinants represent the end manifestations of much ill health among Indigenous populations, intermediate determinants can be thought of as factors which mediate the relationship between the proximal determinants of health and the larger over-arching structures which affect the health status of Indigenous peoples and populations (Reading & Wien, 2013). Specific examples of intermediate determinants include poverty, gender…
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