SOCI 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Typhoid Fever, Nepotism
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Sarah jean devries, michelle gurney, stephanie lane, tanya holvk, dawn crey. There are hundreds of aboriginal women who have gone missing and there are no inquiries. Inquiry launched in 1988, with 50 aboriginal women missing. Women who stood up, were essentially silenced. Highway of tears, heaps of aboriginal women have gone missing there, but no one cared, until white women started to go missing. Not tribe, but band or nation (nation preferred) Tribe has a negative vibe, lesser and out of site. Canada is compared to new zealand - however the maui have a nation that is the size of b. c. , so there is a much different size. The amount of first nations groups in canada make it difficult to put anything in place. Status cards don"t work anywhere, only on reserves. *indigenous and northern affairs (not indian anymore, thanks trudeau) All aspects of life on reserves are controlled by the federal government.