School Plus and Changing Demographics in Saskatchewan: Toward Diversity and Educational Communities
Between 1871 and 1905 the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples entered into treaties with representatives of the British Crown. In exchange for imperial commitments and services, First Nations agreed to share their traditional land with the newcomers who journeyed to their vast...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/196357 2023-05-15T16:16:23+02:00 School Plus and Changing Demographics in Saskatchewan: Toward Diversity and Educational Communities Carr-Stewart, Sheila 2021-12-10 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196357 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v27i2.196357 eng eng UBC Faculty of Education http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196357/191733 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196357 doi:10.14288/cjne.v27i2.196357 Copyright (c) 2021 Canadian Journal of Native Education Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 27 No. 2 (2003) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v27i2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v27i2.196357 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v27i2 2023-01-04T07:51:04Z Between 1871 and 1905 the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples entered into treaties with representatives of the British Crown. In exchange for imperial commitments and services, First Nations agreed to share their traditional land with the newcomers who journeyed to their vast prairie territory. Today the land known as Saskatchewan is home to a population of one million people of whom in 2001 13.3% self-identified as Aboriginal (two thirds First Nations and one third Metis, Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics, 2002). The larger non-Aboriginal portions of the population are mainly descendants of settlers who moved from eastern Canada and Europe. Despite a century of residing together within provincial boundaries, the two communities—Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal—have mostly remained apart geographically, economically, socially, and educationally: separation fostered by culture, languages, lifestyles, and rural versus urban living, and legally by reserve boundaries, the Indian Act, and the Constitutional division of powers between the federal and provincial governments. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Metis Nakota Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) Canada Indian |
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Between 1871 and 1905 the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota peoples entered into treaties with representatives of the British Crown. In exchange for imperial commitments and services, First Nations agreed to share their traditional land with the newcomers who journeyed to their vast prairie territory. Today the land known as Saskatchewan is home to a population of one million people of whom in 2001 13.3% self-identified as Aboriginal (two thirds First Nations and one third Metis, Saskatchewan Bureau of Statistics, 2002). The larger non-Aboriginal portions of the population are mainly descendants of settlers who moved from eastern Canada and Europe. Despite a century of residing together within provincial boundaries, the two communities—Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal—have mostly remained apart geographically, economically, socially, and educationally: separation fostered by culture, languages, lifestyles, and rural versus urban living, and legally by reserve boundaries, the Indian Act, and the Constitutional division of powers between the federal and provincial governments. |
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School Plus and Changing Demographics in Saskatchewan: Toward Diversity and Educational Communities |
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