Aboriginal Miseducation (Ch. 10)

Question 1

aboriginal

Answer 1

• 1st habitants of Canada, includes first nations, inuit, and metis
• term from British Crown/State, mid 1800’s

Question 2

first nations

Answer 2

term of ethnicity that refers to indigenous peoples of Canada who are neither Inuit nor Metis

Question 3

Inuit

Answer 3

Arctic-situated people

Question 4

Metis

Answer 4

People of mixed European-First Nations ancestry

Question 5

aboriginal youth

Answer 5

• 6% of Canada’s population, yet 36% of youth sentenced for crimes
• higher unemployment rate than non-aboriginals
• have less education (ie. less university degrees)
• have lower income
• have higher high-school drop-out rate

Question 6

state practices that racialized aborginals

Answer 6

• colonization/genocide
• Indian Act
• Dislocation to reserves (often on worst/terrible land; prevented them from having private property to pass on -> intergenerational poverty)
• Residential Schools (to remove kids from culture and assimilate them)
• Institutional racism (proximal power, leads to distrust of state)