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2024-09-06

Five things I know about Indigenous People

  • A lot of their communities don’t have access to clean water.
  • They have been around in Canada for 100s of years
  • Their children/they had to go through residential school
  • The (old) Canadian government tried to get rid of them through various means.
  • The large groups are:
    • Metis
    • Inuit
    • The rest are categorized as First Nations.

2024-09-09 - Connection to I lost My Talk ~ Rita Joe

Given as I don’t speak any other languages, it would be extremely difficult to me as I’m a very verbel person

  1. wRITE ABOUT WHAT I WOULD BE LIKE TO LOSE YOUR ABILITY TO SPEAK
  2. WHat does rits joe want thereader tòdo? how does her recommendation for the reSER HELP GUIDE YOU IN BEING AN ACTIVE PARICIPANT

2024-09-17 - What is colonialism

  1. Reconnaissance/surveillance, invasion then occupation
  2. Occupation & push indigenous away along with starting to assimilate
  3. Assimilation and control & propaganada
  4. Radicalization, lies and military control

Other

I lost My Talk ~ Rita Joe

  1. The nuns supressed her culutre and didn’t let her use her own language thereby taking it away from her.
  2. She’s saying that she’s a human two yet they took everything about her away. And now her mind is just scrambled
  3. She can still speak in both languages yet whenever she used her tounge it had no effect.