The sources discuss the discrimination and mistreatment faced by indigenous, Asian, Black, and Japanese communities in Canada's history. Residential schools caused lasting trauma by separating indigenous children from their families and cultures. Survivors often experienced abuse and higher rates of mental health issues. Asian immigrants faced exclusion through head taxes and laws restricting their participation and civil rights. Black Canadians endured slavery and segregation. During WWII, Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated and were interned in camps, despite little evidence they posed a security threat. Prejudice against minorities manifested through riots, segregation, unequal treatment and denial of basic rights and freedoms at various points in Canada's past. Addressing these injustices has been an ongoing process
The sources discuss the discrimination and mistreatment faced by indigenous, Asian, Black, and Japanese communities in Canada's history. Residential schools caused lasting trauma by separating indigenous children from their families and cultures. Survivors often experienced abuse and higher rates of mental health issues. Asian immigrants faced exclusion through head taxes and laws restricting their participation and civil rights. Black Canadians endured slavery and segregation. During WWII, Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated and were interned in camps, despite little evidence they posed a security threat. Prejudice against minorities manifested through riots, segregation, unequal treatment and denial of basic rights and freedoms at various points in Canada's past. Addressing these injustices has been an ongoing process
The sources discuss the discrimination and mistreatment faced by indigenous, Asian, Black, and Japanese communities in Canada's history. Residential schools caused lasting trauma by separating indigenous children from their families and cultures. Survivors often experienced abuse and higher rates of mental health issues. Asian immigrants faced exclusion through head taxes and laws restricting their participation and civil rights. Black Canadians endured slavery and segregation. During WWII, Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated and were interned in camps, despite little evidence they posed a security threat. Prejudice against minorities manifested through riots, segregation, unequal treatment and denial of basic rights and freedoms at various points in Canada's past. Addressing these injustices has been an ongoing process
The sources discuss the discrimination and mistreatment faced by indigenous, Asian, Black, and Japanese communities in Canada's history. Residential schools caused lasting trauma by separating indigenous children from their families and cultures. Survivors often experienced abuse and higher rates of mental health issues. Asian immigrants faced exclusion through head taxes and laws restricting their participation and civil rights. Black Canadians endured slavery and segregation. During WWII, Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated and were interned in camps, despite little evidence they posed a security threat. Prejudice against minorities manifested through riots, segregation, unequal treatment and denial of basic rights and freedoms at various points in Canada's past. Addressing these injustices has been an ongoing process
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Author of Article (First and Last Name): J.R Miller Title of Article:Residential schools in Canada Date Last modified or if not listed, the date you accessed the website:september 2nd 2020 Organization or Publication Company: The Canadian Encyclopedia URL:https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools
Record your point form notes in the space below (in your own words – do not copy and paste!) - Residential schools were created by catholics churches and canadian government , to try to educate and convert indigenous youth to a different culture. - the last residential school in Canada was not close down until 1997 - there was estimated of 150 000 indigenous people who went to residential schools - A estimated of 6000 children died in residential schools - a main objective in creating this schools were to decrease indegeinous dependence on public funds - overall many indigneous children was stuck with long term issues coming out of residential schools. - they were not allow to keep any of their culture - forbidden to speak their first language , wear traditional clothing , no contact with family members. - Their name was changed to a more “civilized name” that was able to pronounce on civilized tongues. Changing to a english name make you civilize - They didn’t really taught them educational stuff , instead they taught them how to do work. - when there is no classes they were a religious practices not their religion but the catholic - government failed to set clear goals and standard for education at residential schools - did not look at teacher qualifications many were underqualified - many after they left they feel like don’t belong on either side , indigenous community or the settles society - Many suffer abuse , when they do something wrong or incorrect they would receive punishment do teachers s impatience - Some even suffer sexual abuse , but no one did anything abouut except sometime they are fire but some just kep teaching. - according to the TRC at least 3200 of indigenous children died from disease such as influenza and tuberculosis , smallpox - Other from that many were malnourished - during the 1940-50s children were used as nutritional experiment without their consent and parent consent - schools could have helped but decide to not give them medical attention and help - by 1986 most school were closed down - Parents have been on protest and trying to have the school close down or atleast switch to their controls - in 2005 the government compensate 1.9 millions for survivor of residential schools abuse. - in 2008 steven harper gave a apology to all former students of residential schools.
SOURCE # 2 Websites: Information to Record: Author of Article (First and Last Name):Dr. Raymond R. Corrado, Ph.D. Dr. Irwin M. Cohen, Ph.D. Title of Article:Mental Health Profiles for a Sample of British Columbia’s Aboriginal Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System Date Last modified or if not listed, the date you accessed the website: January 13th 2020 Organization or Publication Company: Aboriginal healing foundation URL:http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/mental-health.pdf
Record your point form notes in the space below (in your own words – do not copy and paste!) - people who went to residential schools have a higher risk of sucide and addiction - around 90% of cases file for abuse was sexual abuse - 31 percent involve officers and 20 percents involve strangers - most common disorder is PTSD with 64.2% - Substance abuse disorder 26.3% - major depression 21.1% - people who are diagnosed with PTSD are usually sufferening with along with addiction 34.8% , major depression 30.4 percent , dysthymic disorder 26.1 percent - 1o percent who suffer residential school syndrome , this is a kind of PTSD that is built of fear and anger. - SOURCE #3 Websites: Information to Record: Author of Article (First and Last Name):Howard Palmer , Leo Driedger Title of Article:Prejudice and Discrimination in Canada Date Last modified or if not listed, the date you accessed the website:March 4th 2015 Organization or Publication Company: The Canadian Encyclopedia URL:https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prejudice-and-discrimination
Record your point form notes in the space below (in your own words – do not copy and paste!) - European views indigenous people as “noble savages” - Indigenous people were treated as slave - Black and Asian americans were treated horribly - Asians would be considered lower rank in society or not as important - Black Canadians suffer from slavery and segregation from the rest of the society - Many people would see black immigrants as ignorant , a criminal or a harm to society - Black people were treated as a source of cheap labour - between the 1850s and 1950s anti-asian sentiment was endemic - People would see asian as aliens or different from them - groups would claim that asians are trying to steal jobs from whites and is lowering living standard for everyone - Asian were excluded in most unions - They were pay less then others - In BC Asians could not vote , practise law or go to the pharmacy - how people felt about asian were expressed during anti-chinese riots and anti-asian riots - The most serious riots were in Vancouver in 1887 and 1907. Various attempts were also made by anti-Asian groups to exclude Asians from public schools, to restrict the sale of land to Asians and to severely limit the number of licences issued to Japanese fishermen. - In 1892 and 1907 smaller scale anti-Chinese riots also occurred in Alberta, Québec, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan - when legislation were passed it prohibited white women to work in any businesses run by chinese or japanese canadians - Black people faced something similar to Asians - Black people were discriminated from public places and many other services - Black people were segregated in public schools. - Nova Scotia and Ontario people mostly discriminated against Black people - During war they would not want accept any of the groups except for whites - Chinese Canadians faced the Head tax but was stopped in 1923 by the Chinese Immigration Act - In Quebec jews faces strong anti semitism - According to a survey done asking minority groups if they have ever faced discrimination 93% of people stated no but people who did were mostly immigrants and not 2nd or 3rd generation Canadians SOURCE #4 Websites: Information to Record: Author of Article (First and Last Name):Mathew Mcrae Title of Article:Japanese Canadian internment and the struggle of redress Date Last modified or if not listed, the date you accessed the website: Jan 14 2020 Organization or Publication Company: Canadians Museum for Human Rights URL:https://humanrights.ca/story/japanese-canadian-internment-and-the-struggle-for-redress
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- How the whole thing started was because of japan bombing pearl harbour - People think that Japanese are a threat and are undercover - Japanese fishing boats for seize by the government - Fishermans were the first evacuated once the new that japanese can be spies - When Japanese were registering they were register as “Aliens” and humans - around 23 000 people were forced out of their homes - Around 12 000 People were forced to live in Internment camps - They were forced to work in internment camps no matter how bad the weather was - In 1942 The War Measure Act allow the government to force all Japanese Canadian out of their homes and take away all their property and put them in Internment camps - they had no electricity or running water for them to use until 1943 - They didn’t had food that people from Japan had to send them food through the red cross - They were banned from returning to BC after the war - Haywaka and many Japanese Canadian tries fighting for their right and a voice as they feel like this matter is not right - They should not have had their right violated - People felt hurt and horribly treated - In 1988 the government gave a apology an offered $21 000 to those who were affected by internment camps - SOURCE #5 Websites: Information to Record: Author of Article (First and Last Name): Title of Article: Date Last modified or if not listed, the date you accessed the website: Organization or Publication Company: URL:
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