Institutional Support

Social injustice facing the indigenous community in Canada

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First Nations health-care access limited, audit finds

People living in remote First Nations communities in Manitoba and Ontario aren't guaranteed to have access to clinical and client-care services or medical transportation benefits, Auditor General Michael Ferguson said in his report Tuesday.

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Document by the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

“ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AS A SOCIAL DETERMINANT OF FIRST NATIONS, INUIT AND MÉTIS HEALTH”

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Good question.

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Indigenous people are still fighting for a sense of equality within Canada and face institutional racism

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Indigenous children on reserves miss out on child benefit | Toronto Star

The new Canada child benefit is based on income reported on tax returns. If parents don’t file taxes, their kids miss out.

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What is Institutional Support?

Comprised of individual agencies/organizations, but overall regulated by the government (interdependent)

Systems that contribute to the welfare and stability of society

E.g,. Education system, welfare system, health care, foster care, etc.

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First Nations, Second-Class Care

This week an encore of our award-winning look at why First Nations patients sometimes receive second-class health care in Canada. The program was awarded a bronze medal at the New York Festival of Radio and a certificate of merit at the Gabriel Awards earlier this year.

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One of Canada's top aboriginal public health experts says native people face racism and discrimination in the country's emergency departments.

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“The Four Directions” Ryan Young, 2014.

Do not remove credit.

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Teach The Truth.

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medicine wheel

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First painting

Adeline and the 580

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Medicine wheel sacred ceremony. New moon ceremony

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Justin Trudeau is taking a huge stand for Indigenous people in Canada. The Prime Minister posted the above photo on Facebook Thursday, with a link to the budget allotment for improving health care, education and housing for Indigenous people — and it’s a lot.

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“Music is the best medicine.” Today, we honor hip-hop artivist Frank Waln of the Sicangu Lakota nation who uses his music to combat colonialism by raising awareness of issues impacting indigenous youth and communities, from teen suicides to the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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indigenous alcohol stereotype

A recent study done by the University of Arizona found that native peoples are not more likely to be excessive drinkers than whites. The percent of the populations are relatively the same. However a higher percentage of native peoples are more likely to abstain from alcohol than white people in the U.S.

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/study-debunks-notions-about-native-americans-alcohol

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Canadian government found liable for native children taken from families in “Sixties Scoop”

A Canadian judge ruled Tuesday in favor of thousands of indigenous children — now full-grown adults — who filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for forcibly removing them from their families between 1965 and 1984 in what became known as the “Sixties Scoop." 

According to the Guardian, those children were adopted by nonindigenous families as part of what plaintiffs alleged was a systematic effort to erase their cultural identity.

"The ‘scooped’ children lost contact with their families,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba wrote in his decision. “They lost their aboriginal language, culture and identity.” Read more (2/14/17 5:08 PM)

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