Stage 1 and 2 Research by Sam Nadurata

Stage 1

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Stage 2: Thelma Chalifoux

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What is Socioeconomic Inequality

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Who are Indigenous Peoples?

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How do we fix the Socioeconomic Gap for Indigenous People in Canada?

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What are the scars in Indigenous history?

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National Indigenous Issue

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Global Indigenous Issue

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Why do you think it is important to address this issue?

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Socioeconomic Inequality is the gap between Indigenous people and other Canadians around factors like education, income, housing and health.

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The original people of Canada, whose land, people, and culture were stolen by colonizers. Despite the generational discrimination and issues, Indigenous ways of life still thrive in Canada

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The economic + social gaps were created because of resource exploitation, the history of colonization, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples. The social gap will close as a result of the economic gaps closing first.

MACRO economic dev: trade developments, tariffs, government-level changes in policy, not much local input

LOCAL economic dev: urban planning, infrastructure dev., marketing, physical planning, strategic planned focuses on economic success

COMMUNITY economic dev: considering what the community has to offer, its values (like environmental and social) to find solutions to build up economic success

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Why do you think it is important to address this issue?

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Governments use the lands of Indigenous people for developmental projects. Indigenous voices and environmental concerns for their land are not being considered and, if considered, have little impact.

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"Indigenous culture, spirituality, laws and legal processes, rights and title have not been taken into account in the Crown-led and proponent-driven Canadian environmental assessment processes".

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Courts acknowledging that the government + other companies are overstepping their bounds in regard to Indigenous land usage and assessments is important because it is an overdue act of reconciliation

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The damages done by residential schools. These schools inflicted trauma on Indigenous children. They were being abused and mistreated at a young age instead of the traditional nurturing Indigenous ways strayed cultural identity, parenting, the parents, the future children, and generations to come. Oral history is essential in Indigenous culture, and losing the opportunities for that history to be shared is what added to damages even further.

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"the British Government had given commitments to the Zionist Organization regarding the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, for which Zionist leaders had pressed a claim of “historical connection” since their ancestors had lived in Palestine two thousand years earlier before dispersing in the 'Diaspora'"

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The Israel Occupation of Palestine is a highly controversial issue that has been ongoing for decades and has led to the deaths of millions on both sides of the conflict. Palestinian land, after WWI, was given to the UK by the League of Nations, without proper Palestinian consultation. Originally, the land was to be controlled by Britain temporarily until they owed the Zionist Organization + Jewish people home after the events that occurred during WWII. During the British occupation, the Jewish community worked to have Palestine as their home while also claiming the land ancestrally/through very old history. The indigenous Palestinians who lived there for 2 millennia felt their human rights were being violated. The growing conflict made Britain go to the UN (only 2 years old at the time), and they began their involvement. The situation escalated with the solutions the UN provided, affecting the surrounding countries and their allies. Fast forward to now, innocent lives are being lost because of the multiple opposing organizations who all feel strongly and differently about who should occupy the land state.

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Learning and educating yourself about issues like these makes you aware of the suffering that so many people go through daily. Learning about these intense situations is essential in not only realizing how lucky we are but also realizing so much change needs to happen in the world, and we are the next generation that has to help do that. It also shows how common Indigenous communities are treated globally, oppressed and disrespected by another power.

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Who are they? Basic facts (biographical details)

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What did they do to make a difference?

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Do you think the individual’s/group’s actions were effective?

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Born in Calgary, Alberta (Feb 8, 1929)
Died in St. Alberta, Alberta (Sep 22, 2017)
Father = residential school survivor + served as a carpenter and farm hand in WWI
Mother = vegetable trader
four siblings

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Politics

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employee of a government agency called Company of Young Canadians (youth-led government-backed change that harboured several other political activists, later abolished due to controversies)
- appointed to senate thanks to PM Jean Chretien (on Nov 26, 1997)
  - first indigenous woman and fourth indigenous person to serve in the senate
  - focused on Metis housing, drug relations to the government and environmental legislation

Social Justice Activism

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before the abolition, she worked to make community development initiatives in northern areas + improve housing conditions
worked to assist women struggling with alcoholism and domestic abuse at (SLFC)
Started her career as a field worker focused on welfare and land dep. with the Metis Association of Alberta (MAA)
At the (MAA) she aimed to make shelter + food affordable + better welfare grants traveling over Alberta to do so for 12 years

Active member of Metis Community

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taught Cree in northern schools
founded the Slave Lake Friendship Centre (SLFC) Aboriginal Womens Business Development Corporation (AWBDC) and the Metis Womens Council (MWC) all in support of fixing Indigenous and Metis issues
produced programming that focused on Metis culture and history
this made her the first Metis woman to broadcast on a private radio

1970s

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Helped found SLFC for Indigenous women
Had her own radio show, fought in a movement for land claims

1980s

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"a key backroom strategist for Metis during constitutional talks in Ottawa"
worked on Indigenous housing issues (in Edmonton)

1997-2004

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Jean Chretien (PM at the time) offered senator position, Chalifoux served until 2004, retiring at 75 as per requirement
“She was a change agent extraordinaire and her Senate colleagues said she taught them to be better senators,”
“She made them aware of the Aboriginal issues that needed to be addressed at the federal level.”

Even paid for her own constituency office in Alberta due to lack of liberal representation

"When you develop communities, it's like working in the trenches. You train the people to become self-sufficient,"

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"There's a saying that nobody wants on their grave that they wish they would have worked more. We were laughing about that the other day and we thought, well, except for my mother. She might have said that,"

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Not only did she teach youth, become a senator, fight for Indigenous + women + land rights, and break boundaries and records, but she also brought a perspective on the high levels of government needed and also in every other workplace she entered. She was a role model for all her peers, and every article has quotes in admiration, acknowledging her influence on the people in their industries today. Her devotion and drive to work for the people is truly remarkable. So, while Chalifoux made significant physical changes throughout her life through her policies and organizational contributions, her ability to open people's eyes and minds has stayed with them. Chalifoux was and continues to be an influential member of Canada's government.