Cultural Anthropology Research Question 2022

Running head: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural Anthropology
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1CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Research question: How has the concept of colonialism and racial oppression done harm to the
daily lives of the First Nations people of different regions in Canada?
Woolford, Andrew, and Jeff Benvenuto. "Canada and colonial genocide." (2015): 373-390.
The above article has been written by Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto. The article
had been published in the year 2015.1 In this article, tha author has done thorough research on
various perspectives of settler colonialism that took place in Canada. The events of genocide had
also left an impeccable impact on the society.
People of the First Nations Canada or the aboriginals have gone through several bad
situations. The authors of this article have done thorough research on the practices of the
European colonizers. In the modern times, Canada might be considered as the melting pot of
multiculturalism. However, it was not so centuries ago. The author has used several secondary
sources and presented the views on genocide that took place in Canada on the aboriginal people.2
Many crucial insights have been provided by the authors while completing their research works.
They have reflected the actual reasons of the racial conflicts between colonizers and aboriginal
people.
The poor conditions of education and health have also been reflected through the works
of these two eminent authors. It has been presented in their research that children from Inuit and
Métis had been completely removed from their houses and taken under the colonizers. The social
1 Woolford, Andrew, and Jeff Benvenuto. "Canada and colonial genocide." (2015): 373-390.
2 Woolford, Andrew, and Jeff Benvenuto. "Canada and colonial genocide." (2015): 373-390.