Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. ... It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska. So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th- and 17th-century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. ... An individual also has ethnicity, culture, religion, morals, political opinions, beliefs, feelings and tra...

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Many came to America, the Land of the Plenty, in what was known as the "Black Forties." ... These liberal political refugees saw America as a place of hope for democracy. ... The Irish were also hated by native works and it was a common site to see "No Irish Need Apply" on many factory gates. ... They seemed to prosper with ease and were not hated as much by natives because the Germans mostly kept to themselves and did not get involved in the northeastern cities. ... Many Irish and a minority of Germans were Roman Catholic, which at the time was still considered a foreign religion. ...

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Instead of Indies, he had landed in the Americas. ... " European countries promptly rushed to allege lands in the Americas. ... Religion was something that gave Spain the motive to explore the New World. In his journal (1451-1506), Columbus requested the permission to his highnesses to promote the holy Faith and convert the Native Americans. ... Captivating tales like that of the Fountain of Youth, often told to the Spaniards by arrested Indians and slaves, stimulated these adventurers to attempt regularly to conquer the land, as well as its native communities. ...

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American values, such and freedom and democracy, are hardwired into every American citizen. ... Religion was undertaking a huge reformation and this reformation created a firestorm of change throughout the monarchy. ... It educated the Native Americans, preventing colonists from settling the West. ... Once the French and Indian war was over, everything changed in American and these events helped shape America for the future. ... American values were left untouched until this time period, and good timing allowed the Americans to revolt and become patriots. ...

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Aboriginals are the first people to have ever lived in North America and lived quite peacefully before they were colonized by Europeans around the late 1400 ("Aboriginal Issues." ... These kids were forced to be Christian and learn English forgetting their native tongue and religion. ... There is no space in Canada's justice system for racism especial in this day and age where we accept all races, religions, and people .Which shows that not only is education systems are failing them but the justice system is failing them as well. ... In conclusion, without the help of the Canadian govern...

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Throughout this period of time the American colonists, baptized by fire, emerged with increased confidence in their military strength. ... The colonists now native to the Americas had grown accustomed to the colonial way of life and the principles that came with it. During the French and Indian War friction had developed between the old world British regulars, and the more modernized American colonists. ... It had been caused mainly by enormous distances, geographical barriers, conflicting religions, varied nationalities, differing colonial governments, boundary disputes, and by the resentment...

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Term Paper "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. ... Aboriginal freedom was not to last as the pre-confederation government, the government of the now established Canada and religious advocators of Christianity, and other religions, were about to make Aboriginal people their problem. ... To understand the process of assimilation a person must understand history and it affects colonization on native culture. ... There were religious pressure groups that advocated the gove...

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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... ... As the native population in Canada is not treated with equality and justice, we see the aboriginal community in Canada with poor education, in poverty and substance abuse. ... In 1969 Pierre Elliot Trudeau's government had regulated the White Paper, a legal document that had forbid negotiations with the Natives in regards to their aspirations and rights by removing their Indian...

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The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. ... Regardless of the close ties of people and culture with Britain, the colonists started the American Revolutionary War. ... They concluded that the rebels, who had campaigned to conquer their territory,...

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The study also adds that as a result of the long hours these women have to work they do not have the ability to socialize with others or attend church to practice their religion. Many are unable to speak their native language or practice their culture as they live in other people's homes. ...

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Until this time, Canada's constitution, the British North America Act, had remained a legislative act of the British Parliament which had passed the necessary laws for Canada to be constituted as a country in 1867 (MLA accessed 13th September 2003). ... Trudeau also wanted to include in the constitution a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that would guarantee Canadians the basic freedoms of speech, religion and association and would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. ...

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