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A 20 page consideration of the many problems facing Canada’s native peoples as they move out from the reserves into mainstream Canadian culture. This paper relates those problems to the historic tendency to strictly regulate the actions of these people to the point of removing all self responsibility. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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their relationships with the non-Native cultures that invaded their lands as a part of European expansionism. Canadian aboriginals are no exception in this regard. Their relationship with the
predominantly non-Native governmental entities that arose in Canada has been complicated by geographical, historical, political, constitutional, cultural and even racial considerations. The consequences have included changes over time in
the identity of the native peoples themselves, changes that have resulted in a sort of hybridity. Not only has the diversity of Native cultures that are found in Canada
blended into one another to one degree or another, so too has Native culture been influenced to a great degree in many instances by non-Native cultures. Much of this
transition has resulted in response to intentional governmental manipulation of these peoples and their cultures. Other changes, however, have occurred unintentionally in response to a combination of poor governmental
oversight and a general lack of self-responsibility. There are several harsh realities that must be observed when considering Canadian governmental interactions with
aboriginal peoples. Since the beginning of those interactions aboriginals have been viewed to one degree or another as inferior to those of European descent. Interestingly, however, aboriginals were
viewed simultaneously with distaste, with awe, and with envy. They were regarded more as a wild animal than as fellow human beings, animals whose physical attributes could be admired
but whose lifeways could be condemned. They were the noble savage. The perceived inferiority which drove Canadian Indian policy was used to justify the governments attempts to take
on the Indians as charges and their concurrent attempts to destroy the cultural base of these peoples. In reality, that drive was based more on the factor of greed
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