COMMON STEREOTYPES ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE:

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
-Blatant discrimination towards first nation people in Canada.
-can lead to denial of heritage

THREE MAIN STEREOTYPES
-Stupid, drunk and lazy: treated differently, expect the least, think they unhygienic (smelly), think they're mentally slow, not proper and human enough to be considered the same and with the same standards.
-spiritual, one with nature: adored by others, love first nation and their ceremonies, have all the answers, harmless, childlike wonder, in love with the idea, think its a whole other world, disappointment when their bubble gets burst. 
-Primitive savages: cant be alone with an Indian, keeping an eye, what first nation women  are like in bed (women stereotypes), disrespect, sexual objects, difficulty trusting.

REASONS FOR STEREOTYPES
-few people who encourage these stereotypes in the world
-resentment for government money
-holds a whole community responsible for a few peoples wrongdoings. 

HYPOCRISY
- want indigenous to get over their misery
-Canadians refuse to let go of their own self so they build prejudice
-single story that the first nation people are poor, drunk and uneducated.

Indigenous people: a large category of people separated into categories: First Nations, Métis and Inuits.
- First Nation: specific category, found all over the country
- Métis: first nation + European
-Inuit: people
-Inuk: person
Maritime circumpolar people of Canada. 
-Aboriginal: least used term, more internationally used. 

--> his initial reaction is purely based on imaginary prejudices (spiritual, drunk, crazy, homeless, clueless, careless) --> he can later see that he's evolved --> he sees what he wants to (assumptions)--> mistreatment (example: "you people")

Specific examples:
-Joe thought that the big Indian couldn't speak English = stupid --> Joe thinks hes superior
-prejudice: -drinking Lysol--> drunks
 
DOC 6: News Article
GD: Explain the Truth and Reconciliation Report ... the one we see in the above editorial cartoon? / According to activist Christy Jordan-Fenton, how did the residential school system cause the deep social problems within Indigenous communities today?
--> Indigenous youth are over represented in Canada's prisons and child - welfare system
--> death (much higher than published) - not documented
- because malnourished --> abuse and genocide
Solution: change of perception

-So...
In the past, Canadians have done wrong to the indigenous people. They were mistreated, sexually abused, bad healthcare, deaths, rape, taken away from their families (residential schools--> cultural sh)... (all this lead to sever mental illnesses--> depression alcohol, drugs,...)  but now Canadians are willing to fix their previous mistakes by establishing the Truth and Reconciliation report (restoring the Indian rights and compensating for all the discrimination done in the past)

Main social problems: Poverty, poor health, educational failure, family dysfunction, violence, substance abuse. 1 in 4 children in First Nation families live in poverty and 17,8% reported being hungry due to lack of money. Income gap of 28,8% between aboriginals and  non-aboriginals in canada. Aboriginal youth suicide rates 3-7x higher than non-aboriginal youth. There are 500 reserve schools suffering from a lack of reliable running water, computers, libraries and experienced teachers, and 60% of aboriginals living on reserves don’t graduate high school. The lack of proper education leads to a more difficult life, and a difficult life creates many problems, some of which are listed above. Then the kids of those people have a lack of education, and the cycle is repeated.

Indigenous life summary
poverty--> poor health--> education failure--> family disfunction--> violence--> substance abuse--> + suicide rates

The main idea that Scott Gilmore wants to portray in his message is that there are 2 completely different realities in the same country (Canada). One side is perfect and regarded as one of the best countries, and that side is occupied by the rich and fortunate. However, not so far away, there is another side to Canada, where the Indigenous people live. There, many aspects are worse than some found in third world countries. He really wanted to portray the difficult lives Indigenous people go through and huge gap there is between their communities and the rest of Canada. He also claims that most of Canadians living in the good part of the country don't care about the situation lived by the Indigenous.