First Nation poverty has historical context

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First Nation poverty has historical context – Battlefords News-Optimist

by ahnationtalk on September 20, 2018561 Views

September 19, 2018

Generational poverty among First Nation people is explained by historical context, trustee Richard Hiebert wrote in a presentation featured at the Sept. 14 Living Sky School Division board meeting.

“First Nation people were systematically disenfranchised, dispossessed and relegated to the margins of society.”

Treaties

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, historically, “Aboriginal economies were subsistence oriented, organized around activities like fishing, hunting and gathering,” while “economic activities depended on geographical availability and seasonal patterns of major food sources.”

In the mid to late-1800s, buffalo, important to indigenous diet and economy, were nearly exterminated, wrote historian John E. Foster. Canadian and American policies to exterminate the buffalo were also meant to “starve Aboriginal peoples into dependence.”