GGR353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indian Register
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Health inequalities can be directly and indirectly related (how this history of aboriginal treatment produces indirect inequalities) Ill health and social suffering go hand in hand. Nothing about being aboriginal that creates these inequalities, it"s the system of which were living. Government defines who is aboriginal, and what category you are under. People who allow the government to define them. Recent years there has been a change in the term, aboriginal to indigenous. Metis makes up a large population of people in northern ontario. Can be found anywhere in canada, but we look at where they are concentrated. You don"t need a geographical space in order to be a nation. We know that high poverty rates mean high fertility rate. Aboriginals are significantly younger and fewer seniors. Different demographic trends compared to non aboriginal population. Have been the most disadvantaged group because they don"t fit with aboriginals and non-aboriginals. Tricked aboriginal people into giving up their land and resources.
