Amrit Gill Reflection #6 This week we have spent some time considering Aboriginal Education. How has your thinking about your role in reconciliation as a teacher developed since you entered PDP? What PDP goals do Aboriginal Principles of Learning and Aboriginal content address? What excites you about this challenge? What struggles are you having? What are your next steps? After the visit to the Aboriginal center I feel empowered and like I would be able to "authentically‚ transparently
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In Canada‚ the term Aboriginal refers to First Nations‚ Metis and Inuit people who were the first to inhabit Canada. The aboriginal community represents 4% percent of the population in Canada with 1.4 million people having an Aboriginal heritage in 2011. (Statistics Canada‚ 2015). As aboriginals were the first people to inhabit Canada comes a long history full of injustices including a major injustice know as residential schools. Aboriginal people face multiple barriers in modern Canada such as
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resources and how much of it. The aboriginal people of North America are no exception from this neglect and over the years have been mistreated and unfairly
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Aboriginal Ceremonies in Australia Aboriginal people in Australia are indigenous. The earliest known is meaning of the word “aboriginal”. Actually‚ the Australian aboriginal is not coming from Australian it self. They came from Asia about 30.000 years ago. They have 500-600 distinct groups. No matter they live in different groups‚ they still an inherent part of the culture of aboriginal. Their culture is unique. Not only unique‚ they also rich in cultures. One of their unique cultures is ceremony
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STATISTICS SIGNIFICANCE Statistic 1: 28% of the Aboriginal community are victims of at least one crime compared to 18% of non-Aboriginals. 163 violent incidents of becoming a victim of crime among 1000 Natives 74 violent incidents of becoming a victim of crime among 1000 non-Natives Natives experience more than double the overall victimization rates than non-Indigenous people Significance: This data showcases the overall injustices discrimination this social group feels in Canadian society. Social
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Australia’s aboriginals has been the longest surviving cultural background in the history of the world‚ with around 2% of Australia’s population. Australia’s aboriginals migrated from Asia at least 30 thousand years ago‚ comprising 500-600 distinct groups. Their strong spiritual beliefs‚ tribal culture of storytelling‚ art‚ and history tie them together to their land. The aboriginals are characterised by having gods who created humans and surrounding environment. Each groups of aboriginals believes
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comparable to those of developing countries” (“Prejudices”). Canadian Aboriginals have been treated with the utmost disrespect in their native country. Firstly‚ Aboriginals have not been honoured with the recognition that they rightfully deserve. For example‚ Aboriginals have not been treated as competent equals when negotiating land ownership treaties. In one instance “James Douglas… negotiated agreements… extinguishing Aboriginal title to the lands around Victoria‚ Nanaimo and Fort Rupert between
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govern the day to day life of the aboriginal people by determining issues from whome an individual is permitted to talk to and marry‚ to determining what are an individual’s responsibility is to other members in the clan. Significance of kinship ties Assign the responsibility to transmit the knowledge of the dreaming from elders to the younger generation. People are brought into the dreaming by different degrees according to their age and position in the community. This process of learning the dreaming
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time that Europeans landed in Australia ‘Pastoralists were pushing into Indigenous territory‚ robbing Aboriginal people of the land they had lived on and nurtured for thousands of years. ‘But Aboriginal communities did not just stand by as the land which they had formed rich bonds with‚ both spiritually and physically‚ was taken from their hands. Through a mixture of fear and hatred of the Aboriginals‚ European settlers engaged in many brutal clashes with them to attempt to seize their land. The Myall
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A small‚ but significant‚ emerging area in the literature deals with the resilience of Aboriginal peoples. This relatively new area focuses upon the strengths of Aboriginal peoples and their cultures‚ providing a needed alternative to the focus on pathology‚ dysfunction and victimization in Aboriginal communities. Despite the hardships that Aboriginal peoples have been through‚ including residential schooling‚ many have overcome great difficulties and continue to work towards the achievement of health
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