Sociology: Equality Rights of Aboriginal People in Canada

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Introduction
It is generally difficult for making any sort of generalizations regarding the definitions
of the rights of the Indigenous people due to the existence of diversity among First nations
and the Unit community people residing in Canada. The rights of the aboriginal community
people are inherent, community rights that has been flowing from the original occupation of
thee land which is Canada from social orders that has been created before the arrival of the
Europeans to North America (Canadian Human Rights Commission, 2013). For several of
the concepts the rights of the aboriginal people can be summed as the right towards self-
independence through the right towards independence by self-determination regarding the
land, governance, resources and culture (WHO, 2019). There lies no specific definition of the
rights of the aboriginal due to the presence of diversity among the community people. The
aboriginal people have traditionally pointed over three of the principal arguments towards the
establishment of their rights, which includes the international law, the proclamation of 1763
and the common laws as defined in the courts of Canada. The thesis statement of the essay
argues with the fact of the equality of the rights of the aboriginal people who are residing in
Canada.
Discussion
This part of the paper will highlight on the sociological concepts of the factors
targeting the current status of the aboriginal people in Canada. This section will also explain
why the social workers and the social worker institutions must initiate in the determination of
the equality rights of the indigenous population which are the aboriginal community people
residing in Canada.
Sociological Knowledge

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The concept of equality is one of the essential sociological knowledge that combines
the concerns with the freedom and equality providing the idea that all the people from
different communities ought to live together. This paper highlights the need for the equality
rights of the aboriginal people in Canada.
Source – (Henderson, William B. and Catherine Bell, 2018)
The aboriginal community people have a long history and debate of being
discriminated in Canada. There lie various sociological factors highlighting the disparities
and the differences regarding the rights among the aboriginal and the non-aboriginal residents
of Canada.
The report from the Canadian Human rights Commission illustrated a very clear
picture regarding the stark differences among the wellbeing of the aboriginal and the non-
aboriginal population in Canada. The report regarding the equality rights of the aboriginal

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people stated the overall welfare of the first nations, the Inuit by crunching numbers from six
of the major recent statistics of the Canadian studies.
Source: by author
The figure above illustrates the major factors of the sociological knowledge
highlighting the need towards the determination of the causes and the patters of the need for
the equality rights among the aboriginal people in Canada.
According to the reports and in the context of the above figure , the aboriginal people
in Canada are much more likely to be unemployed , receiver of social assistance, residing or
living in inadequate housing, experience some of the unjustified and violent crimes and
become incarcerated as compared to the non-aboriginals. According to Williams & Gill
(2017) the aboriginal Canadians are at the higher rate of disadvantage as compared to the
non-aboriginals.
The relationship of the country with the aboriginal people within its borders is
generally governed by the well-developed legal framework that is many of the respects is
Equality
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inclusion