Essay on indigenous people face today

I think the biggest issue facing indigenous people in Canada is mental health and all of the repercussions that come as a product of poor mental health. I believe that this issue is caused by generational trauma, but also by the structure of our society and how indigenous people are inherently disadvantaged due to the structure of our world. Is poor mental health in this kind of community in any community can cause a ripple effect of drug use poverty just overall systemic issues that affect multiple generations. One of the ways that I think that we can deal with mental health for indigenous people is to reconcile the bigger issues that are causing the mental health crisis, such as generational trauma, and a disconnection from their culture. And we have seen by allowing indigenous peoples to reconnect with their culture that can improve their quality of life and mental health. However, this is a very slow process. As policies around mental health and mental health care and awareness are on the slower side to change and assist people. How I think that we can address this is better access to these resources around mental health with a level of cultural awareness that is needed when dealing with these issues, especially in indigenous communities. One of the things that I have seen be effective is rehab facilities, focussing on that reconnection to culture and indigenous life. We can see this with Canadian statistics around indigenous mental health specifically in the comparison of indigenous groups, living on reserve and off of reserve land and in indigenous groups with indigenous status and non-indigenous status the groups with indigenous status who went into foster care had about a 5% better mental health outcome in their reported mental health experiences, saying that their mental health was good to excellent in comparison to the groups who were more disconnected from their culture and did not have an indigenous status. Mental health is really important because simultaneously it is both a product and a catalyst to other issues in the community. Mental health struggles and issues can both be a product of addiction and a cause of addiction as well as a product and cause of generational trauma, poverty, violence, gangs and other significant problems. The core idea here is that by allowing connection to culture that can improve mental health and giving these people access to mental health resources. It can help stop the cycle of violence, trauma, and abuse.

It depends on the type of apology. Actions speak, louder than words is a very common phrase when you talk about apologizing or making up for a specific kind of behavior, and I believe through the knowledge that I have gained in this course that Australia form of apology on paper looks better than canada’s form of apology. Just apologizing and acknowledging that that kind of stuff is happening and happened is a start for from both countries but actually doing something with that knowledge is an entirely different story and I think is the best measurement of whether or not there is. Apologies meant something. If we look at the conditions that many indigenous groups face today in Canada, including issues, accessing clean water, food, and education that doesn’t seem like much of an apology to me that isn’t accommodating or helping your citizens that you have damaged to such a significant degree through colonialism. What I have learned from both worldjournal project and the aboriginal studies 20 project on health living and education on reserves. A verbal apology is not enough, but it is a start. It acknowledges their past wrongs, but in less these countries actually fix them and give these people clean water or like Australia’s doing give them access to bilingual education in both their native language and Australian. There is no true acknowledgement of those wrongs without making significant moves to change them and many indigenous people being on boiled water advisories on reserves and not having access to the to meet those needs in. Canada shows a lack of willingness to fix these issues. Most effective means of reconciliation with this is the government going through with what they’re saying and giving the indigenous people a means to be an independent nation, whether that be more funding to get them started on their feet and working towards independence or allowing accommodations for their culture to make sure that in order for them to function in the Canadian society that we’ve created, these people feel accommodated and not continue to feel like they have to blend in and lose their culture in anyway in order to be able to live in this country. And the fact that extent, that is still happening with more and more people moving off of reserve land and into urbanized areas so that they can have access to clean water so that they can have access to education. We can see this massive issue where that superiority of Canadian culture is still undermining indigenous life. The Oka crisis is even an example of not of Canada, not apologizing, pushing its values on indigenous people through the attempt to develop a golf course on indigenous land. Truest apology is a genuine apology that comes with change and that change must actually happen not just be some document. The guest ignored or some other promise from the government that they will get clean water this year, but an actual substantial change in the quality of life of these people well them getting to maintain their culture.