CANCELLED Indigenous People in Canada

Indigenous People in Canada

Presenter: Jim Morin, PHD (Retired Post-Secondary Educator)

The land we know as Canada has been the ethnic home of Indigenous Peoples since the last Ice Age.  In the last five hundred years, however, contact with Europeans and others has changed many aspects of Indigenous People’s lives.  Early trade contact lapsed into centuries of negative effects (disease, displacement, disempowerment and discord).

More recently social changes have been more reflective and progressive through recognition and acknowledgment of the past.  Forward momentum has been maintained through various commissions and the adoption by Canada and BC of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  Over five sessions, we will examine this story of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, ending with the reflection: Where are we now in Canada?

5 sessions: $50   Class size: max 35

Thursdays: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30   1:00-3:00pm

Cedar Park Church

5300 44^th Ave, Ladner