POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gradual Civilization Act, Indian Register, Indian Act
11 Feb 2019
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In 2011 statistics canada reported: 1. 8 million people, or 5. 5 per cent of the canadian population, gave as their ethnic origins. Aboriginal demographics, cont"d: aboriginal people are twice as likely as other canadians to be unemployed, status indians on reserves are four times as likely to be unemployed as other. Canadians: on average aboriginal canadians earn about less than non-aboriginal canadians, about 4/10 aboriginal canadians have not completed high school, on reserves, it is about 6/10, for the non-aboriginal canadian population the comparable figure is only 2/10. The language of aboriginal politics: for most of canada"s history, aboriginals were marginalized and barely visible in mainstream interpretations of canadian history and society, wwii spurs some social change. Canada: assimilation and integration - cultural genocide, self-determination, reparations, reconciliation, self-determination is the ability to pursue one"s economic, social, and cultural development, as well as determining political status (on a scale from full independence to full integration)
