"I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind", by Thomas King
Guiding Question:  What is Thomas King's main message (theme) about modern Indigenous culture?

This video clip shows that the aboriginals in our day are very different than back then and that they are a part of our community and that we should treat them like any other.

"I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind", by Thomas King
Guiding Question:  What is Thomas King's main message (theme) about modern Indigenous culture?

This shows that the first nation descendants live among us and that they are not brave warriors, and half-naked, dancing people wearing feathers and buckskin. In reality, they are not that different from mainstream society.

"Stereotypes about Natives in Canada", by Wab Kinew

Guiding Question:   In our society, what are the most common stereotypes about indigenous people"?

Five things to stop saying about First Nations (stereotypes) :
-Alcohol
(Poverty that separates white people from indigenous, white people consume alcohol and pass out at various places, but indigenous people do it on the streets which is considered shameful)
-Why don't you guys just get over it ?
(Some people got over it, but it doesn't mean they can forget They endured terrible traumas, which are hard to forget)
-The long-hair thing
(Long hair : symbol of cultural pride, long straight hair or curly hair)
-The 7 billion dollars?
(People asking indigenous what they do with all that money,
This money has to pay for a population the same size as New-Brunswick, and New-Brunswick spends 8 billion dollars on their population, and no one asks them the reason why they receive that money)
-Taxes
(A status Indian pays income tax, sales tax and even a land transferred tax. Another stereotype : Aboriginal people in Canada are getting a free ride, but after 140 years they are still waiting for the things that were promised in those agreements to share the land, so who's getting the free ride?)

Guiding Question:  According to activist Christy Jordan-Fenton, how did the residential school system cause the deep social problems within Indigenous communities today?

-Residential schools actually impacted seven generations of Indigenous people because in those schools, children who were taken away weren't raised by their parents. This caused that these children didn't receive and didn't learn the actual "support system" they needed, which means they won't give it to their own children neither. "We learn by experience."
-The children in Residential schools were constantly encouraged to let down their culture in order to learn the "right things". These children were then taken away when they were 3 or 4 years old and they returned back to their community at 14 or 15. Being in these establishments for such a long time changed their way of living their life, which means that when they got back to their homes, it was really hard to re-integrate the world they once lived in when they were younger. They probably had forgotten their language, their ceremonies, their cultural practices, which can cause misunderstanding between youth and elders.
-Normalization of violence : Children who are constantly victims of daily violence consider it as normal because it's all they have ever known for their whole life, so they don't know how life would be without it.