Indigenous Human Rights: an Overview of the Present Condition of First Nation Toward Education
Indigenous Human Rights: an Overview of the Present Condition of First Nation toward Education
Every part of the world has indigenous people whose rights have been deprived. In the beginning, they have free access of the land they inhabit and possess all valuable resources within it but after a contact with European and/or American colonization, they struggle to live freely because of the self-centered actions of these colonizers. One of these indigenous people are the first people of Canada, or most commonly referred as First Nations and/or Aboriginals. Over the past decades, First Nations have been battling for their rights, most specifically to their rights toward education; one of the most obvious reason for this unending battle is the disparity in school funding of First Nation and any other provincial schools. Secondly, the government violates some Indigenous Human Rights declared by United Nations specifically toward the health and education of First Nations. Finally, most of their schools have inadequate access to new equipment suitable for the learning of their children. These reasons reveal the reality of inequality and relaxed response of the government toward the alarming crisis in First Nation’s education.
There have been multiple reports regarding the condition of First Nations’ education and the aim of this paper is to let the society see through their selves these substantial gap; thus, this paper is sub-divided into three major parts:
Funding in First Nation’s education Throughout the past years, the government have been working on closing the gap between the educational funding of First Nation and any non-Aboriginal schools. Although the federal government’s objective is to resolve these gap, it is evident that the present funding level resulted from the national formula of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada can no longer finance a working educational program.
Of the $1.2 billion in federal funding for First Nations K-12 education (excluding
Every part of the world has indigenous people whose rights have been deprived. In the beginning, they have free access of the land they inhabit and possess all valuable resources within it but after a contact with European and/or American colonization, they struggle to live freely because of the self-centered actions of these colonizers. One of these indigenous people are the first people of Canada, or most commonly referred as First Nations and/or Aboriginals. Over the past decades, First Nations have been battling for their rights, most specifically to their rights toward education; one of the most obvious reason for this unending battle is the disparity in school funding of First Nation and any other provincial schools. Secondly, the government violates some Indigenous Human Rights declared by United Nations specifically toward the health and education of First Nations. Finally, most of their schools have inadequate access to new equipment suitable for the learning of their children. These reasons reveal the reality of inequality and relaxed response of the government toward the alarming crisis in First Nation’s education.
There have been multiple reports regarding the condition of First Nations’ education and the aim of this paper is to let the society see through their selves these substantial gap; thus, this paper is sub-divided into three major parts:
Funding in First Nation’s education Throughout the past years, the government have been working on closing the gap between the educational funding of First Nation and any non-Aboriginal schools. Although the federal government’s objective is to resolve these gap, it is evident that the present funding level resulted from the national formula of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada can no longer finance a working educational program.
Of the $1.2 billion in federal funding for First Nations K-12 education (excluding