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Aboriginal Poverty and Crime

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Abstract [This essay is about some of the challenges Aboriginals face due to social exclusion and poverty. History had shown us that due to their displacement and dislocation, some lost their culture and language were taken from them when the residential schools were implemented. To this day, it is still a challenging effort for the government implements policies and programs that would reintegrate and eradicate the discrimination and poverty. Aboriginal Poverty and Crime Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle, which an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Simone Weil (1910-1945) French Philosopher. Social exclusion and marginalization are the results of Aboriginal Poverty and Crime. Before the Europeans discovered the North American Continent, Aboriginals had occupied this area. Each tribe had their tradition and culture. Some had led nomadic lifestyles while others were farmers. The arrival of the Europeans with their Colonial system breathed social, cultural and economic discrimination, dislocating and displacing the Aboriginals from their lands. This action negatively affected the relationship these people had with the land and its resources. During the colonial system of government, residential schools were implemented for the Aboriginal children. The purpose was to erase the Aboriginal’s culture, language, and beliefs and create “Christianized” and “civilized” Aboriginal communities. These schools were known for their emotional, physical, spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse of the children that were in their care. (Chansonneuve, 2007, p.11; Chrisjohn, Young & Maraun, 2006, p.49-50; Corrado & Cohen, 2003, p.41; Cote & Schissel, 2008, p.224; Fournier & Crey, 2006, p.141-142, Grant, 1996, p. 225-231; Kelly, 2008, p. 24; Milloy, 1999, p.298; Shawanda, 2010, p. 29). The residential schools forced separation of children from their families and caused some of the Aboriginal kids' language and knowledge of their culture to be lost. These children then grew with little or no knowledge of their culture and language. Today we can still see the striving resistance of the still lingering stench of Colonialism, and the destruction it is still doing to the first nation people due to their differ

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