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My reflection On Aboriginal History In B.C. And Residential Schools

5/30/2016

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What happened in B.C.?
When the Europeans came to Canada, they built residential schools for aboriginal children to go to so they can change them into people they are not. That is called an assimilation The reason for that is the Europeans wanted power so that they think they are better than them.






About aboriginal cultures?
Aboriginal cultures really worship animals. The only time they eat animals is when they are starving to death. They don't hunt for fun, they hunted for survival. Anther thing they worship is spirits. They have rituals for the dead spirits and a lot more. Some hobbies that they have are making totem poles. They carve animals to worship the animals dead spirits




What were residential schools?
Residential schools were buildings that the Europeans were built to change the aboriginal's culture and language. In the residential schools they had to live there for a year until holidays. They couldn't speak their own language and they lived in dorms. They could only eat or drink when the teachers told them to. Lots of kids die because of starvation or suicide. The reason kids committed suicide is they were depressed. they had to sit against their will in a classroom so they just killed themselves.




What happened to families?
Families sometimes never saw each other again because of depression.They were torn apart. A lot of families were sad because they were forced to give their kids to the nuns and priests that worked at the schools. Because of the long months leaving their families and only coming back on breaks they couldn't talk to their parents sometimes.






whose land are we on?
We are on the land of the Coast Salish people. They live in B.C.They have the rights to fish and hunt in B.C. We must pay our respect to them because it is not our land it is theirs. When the Europeans came they colonized and "claimed" the land to be theirs.Colonizing is when people come on someone else's land and claims it to be theirs. Now the land belongs to the Supreme Court of Canada and the Coast Salish people have rights to do things in certain spots on the land.





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Part 1 of TSB

4/19/2016

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​​Touching spirit bear is a great book so far. The main character is a 15 year old boy named Cole who is a troublemaker. He has anger problems and his personality is a mean/angry kid. A few other main characters are Peter,Garvey,Mr Matthews and Mrs Matthews. Peter is a boy that got beat up by Cole because he sniched on him for robbing a store. Garvey is a child care man who takes care of Cole when he is in prison sometimes. His personality is a nice and caring man,but he can be mean sometimes. The final main characters are Mr and Mrs Matthews. Mr Matthews is Cole's
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Global Issues 

3/4/2016

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Global issues are issues that are happening around the world. A few examples of global issues are: Racism,Disease,Overfishing and a lot more. Some of these hurt people and others hurt the earth.One that pollutes the earth are oil spills. And One that hurts people is racism. A global issue that I want to learn more about is racism. I did my presentation in class on racism but I really want to know more. To raise awareness on racism I would tell my class to tell other people and then hopefully it will spread awareness. When someone is being racism It is probably someone from one race being mean to someone from another race. what is happening is they are talking bad about their race and making them feel bad. When racism started is when the Europeans took over North America. Racism was never just in a certain place it happens around the globe. Why racism happens is people are just mean in the world. How it happens is people talk meanly. My opinion is that this is not fair. I mean,we are all humans. Just because someone has different skin dosn't mean that they are bad people. That is my blog on global issues!
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