HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wage Labour, Homicide, Systematic Review
5 May 2017
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Expressed strong link to the natural resources of the claimed territory. Part of a portion of society that is non dominant. Desire to maintain ancestral environments and systems as distinctive. Most economic and health disparities today can be linked to a history of conquest, victimization and colonialism. Indian: first nations person registered under the indian act of 1876 (having status) Tracts of land governed by tribal chiefs or bands. About half (45%) of registered indians live on reserve. The majority of non-status indians (75%) and metis (71%) live in urban areas. Other aboriginal refers to respondents who reported more than one identity group and those who reported being a band member with no aboriginal identity and no registered indian status. The most recent national household survey (nhs) in 2011 showed that 1,400,685 had an aboriginal identity in canada representing 4. 3 % of the total national population. This is an increase from 3. 8 % in 2006 and 3. 3% in 2001.
