1. Was Louis Riel and the Metis justified in using violence? PRO Louis Riel and Metis were justified in using violence. There is a similar circumstance with Riel’s rebellion; Gandhi’s nonviolence resistance. Gandhi’s nonviolence resistance was successful, but it brought a great loss. Since India has a large population, they could keep their tradition and had a less apprehension about losing their culture during the great repression. However, Metis is a minority race. They have the risk of
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option than choosing to fight against the government (well at least for now). After 1870, increasingly discriminatory attitudes within Manitoba forced hundreds of Metis people to move to present-day Saskatchewan. It was almost like the Metis and the First Nations were controlling their anger towards the government. Instead of rebelling right away, they kept fleeing to the west. The Canadian government were very “irresponsible” said Louis Riel on the day of his trial. An example of an irresponsible
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religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into the Euro-Canadian culture. These schools started in the 1880’s into the closing decades of the 20th century and in 1920 it was put under the Indian Act. It was then mandatory for First Nations to attend the school, and illegal for them to attend other education institutes. Residential schools had two main objectives, one was to isolate children from their family and to assimilate them. They did this because they thought that Aboriginal
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In Maraget Atwood’s, Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer, and Oliver Goldsmith’s The Lonely Settler, the imagery of Canada’s first pioneer and first encounters of Aboriginal people of Canada is shown. The depiction of the pioneer is someone tough, hard working, determined, and passionate; all of which are characteristics people would determine as positive to have. The pioneer is inspired to create a better life for himself and for his family, and to find freedom. They come to Canada with the expectations
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Mariana: Shakespeare's “The Tempest” was set in a fictional island that was somewhere in the Mediterranean in renaissance Europe. The imaginary island gave Shakespeare the opportunity to create endless possibilities for activities in the story. The island was described as “ barren and arid” and magical place. The Twelfth Night was set in an imaginary Dukedom in a city called Illyria which is today parts of Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro. It is a place set on the Adriatic
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The highest form of ignorance is when you act upon something you don’t know anything about. A play written by an old man who goes by the name William Shakespeare called Macbeth. The main character being Macbeth display’s ignorance throughout his life, deaths, and magic. Another story display’s ignorance throughout it, this story is known as Arthur. King Arthur’s story also includes death and magic through ignorance. Macbeth had believed three witches and so he ignorantly killed his king, Duncan
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The Crusades were holy wars fought between Christians in Europe and Muslims in the Middle East between 1095 and 1291. The goal was to take control of Jerusalem away from Muslims. For centuries , Christians Pilgrims traveled from Europe to Jerusalem. In the 11th century , the Seljuk Turks , who were Muslims begin to interfere with these pilgrimages. In 1071 the Seljuk fought against the Byzantines, who were Christians lost. The Emperor asked the Christians in Europe to help protect his empire from
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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was established in 1991 in the wake of the Oka crisis and Canada’s Prime Minister at that time, Brian Mulroney, set up RCAP with the objective to investigate and report on the Aboriginal situations countrywide via collaboration between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, to develop an agreeable future for all Canadians (Mcgregor, 2011). RCAP recommendations were broad and involved discourse and sustainable resource/ forest management frameworks
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homogenous group of people in Canada. "Indigenous”, "Native", and "Aboriginal" are used as broad terms to collectively describe three different cultural groups known as "First Nations", the "Metis", and the "Inuit". These three groups all have their own unique culture, historical background, and political goals. The group known as “First Nations” has 633 bands, representing 52 cultural groups or nations and over 50 languages. Most individuals prefer to be called by the specific nation they belong in because
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With this idea in mind, the government establishes residential schools to start discipling and educating first nation children, see that children are much easier to mold than adults. As a start to this idea, government officials were ordered to remove children from the strong influence of their family and culture, due to the fact that culture would have to
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