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An 8 page investigation of the problems currently being confronted by Canada's First Peoples. This paper traces those problems to poor relations between those people and the Canadian government. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPnaCanPol.rtf
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Canada is not alone in the many problems that are being experienced by its indigenous peoples. Many of those
problems relate to poor government policies regarding Canadas first peoples. As is the case in the U.S. as well, Canadian Indian policy has been myopic and oppressive and the
relationship between the Canadian government and the indigenous peoples that eventually fell within its jurisdiction has been a rocky one (Comeau and Santin, 1995, 7). This relationship has been
complicated by geographical, historical, political, constitutional, cultural and even racial considerations (Comeau and Santin, 1995, 7). In Canada in particular, the costs incurred by the indigenous peoples of that
land have been great. The scars that have been carved are deep and long-lived. Canada and the World Backgrounder (2006, 4) reports
that Canadas aboriginal peoples, particularly the people that currently live on reserves, live in a state of poverty that is comparable to that experienced in third world countries! Forty-two
percent of Saskatchewan Native Americans live below Canadas poverty line (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 2006, 4). In the heavily populated areas this number rises to an even more
embarrassing 51.3 percent (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 2006, 4). This compares to only 9.2 percent of non-Natives in Sascatchewa that live below Canadas poverty line (Canada and the
World Backgrounder, 2006, 4). The disability rate for aboriginal peoples in Canada is over twice that of non-aboriginals (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 2006, 4). Obviously, something is
very wrong in the policies that the government has employed to deal with their Native peoples. The obvious question that Canadians must ask
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