Module 4: Racism and Aboriginal People

Question 1

Alcoholism in the aboriginal communities

Answer 1

It has little to do with biology and much more to do with complex structural and historical factors stemming from the largely negative interactions with the dominant society

Question 2

“Residential School Syndrome”

Answer 2

Refers to the intergenerational consequences of being taken from parents, and of not learning how to properly parent.
As a result personal pathological behavior and family problems are explained as both the direct and indirect consequences of having attended these racist

Question 3

Residential Schools

Answer 3

To force assimilation on Aboriginal children.

Eradication of the seemingly savage culture replaced with “civilized” European norms and values

Question 4

History of Aboriginal people in Canada

Answer 4

Should be a lesson that a long history of racist-inspired oppression cannot be erased over night

Question 5

1950

Answer 5

Year residential schools began to close in Canada