SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Indirect Rule, Health Canada

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

Document Summary

Week 6: aboriginal communities 1 colonial legacies. Factors that influence health and wellness for indigenous people in canada: October 12th 2017: harms and violence of colonialism (denial of language, cultural identity, spiritual beliefs), discrimination, sexual violence like rape, disempowered/self-hatred, mental health (depression, alcoholism, land dispossession, changes in subsistence rights, and. Inequality of living conditions (tb and crowding, cholera, skin diseases) Aboriginal people: indigenous inhabitants of canada including first nations, m tis and inuit peoples. Organic political and cultural entities that stem historically from the original peoples of north america, rather than individuals united by supposed racial characteristics. (cid:499) It was to help restore justice to the relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in. Canada, and to propose practical solutions to stubborn problems, that the royal commission on. In canada aboriginal identity is a legal category includes: first nations, metis. The control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people;