SOCI 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paternalism, Homicide, Indian Register
21 Nov 2017
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It is much younger, faster-growing, with fertility rates almost twice of non-aboriginal: demographically, the aboriginal population is different from the rest of canadian population, today, ca(cid:374)ada"s a(cid:271)origi(cid:374)al populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of 4 (cid:373)ajor groups: tatus i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)s, (cid:374)o(cid:374)-status. Life expectancy is less than the canadian average by 10 years. The abuse of the rights of aboriginal women and children. Racism against aboriginal women and children is manifested in the relationship between child welfare agencies and aboriginal families. The system has removed many aboriginal children from their natural parents, extended families and communities. With children placed in non-aboriginal foster homes, adoption to non-aboriginal families have had devastating emotional and psychological effects. Social workers using middle-class norms to assess aboriginal families. Aboriginal women constitute a most victimized group in canadian society: their identity is determined by law established by the white men. They suffer systemic emotional, sexual and physical abuse by individuals and institutions.
