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Not only are First Nations children systemically denied access to comparable levels of funding and resources available to non-Aboriginal students but, in the case of Attawapiskat, they don't even have access to a school.
Charlie Angus: What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came? Charlie Angus 2011
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Not only are First Nations children systemically denied access to comparable levels of funding and resources available to non-Aboriginal students but, in the case of Attawapiskat, they don't even have access to a school.
Charlie Angus: What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came? Charlie Angus 2011
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No doubt the legacy of Indian residential schools have a dark side …. but to recognize that history is a necessary step for all of us to build a Canada that all of us, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, can be proud of, and for Canada to be a model for the indigenous peoples of the world.
Iacobucci: Recognizing History of Residential Schools a “Necessary Step” : Law is Cool 2009
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This first finding angered non-Aboriginal fishers because they saw a bias in the law which gave Aboriginal fishers rights that they did not have (despite the fact that Aboriginal fisheries are minuscule operations compared to those operated my non-Aboriginals).
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This first finding angered non-Aboriginal fishers because they saw a bias in the law which gave Aboriginal fishers rights that they did not have (despite the fact that Aboriginal fisheries are minuscule operations compared to those operated my non-Aboriginals).
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They're more contemporary than any non-Aboriginal Australian art, but they also have thousands of years of tradition in them.
March 2008 2008
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I'm an Anglo-Italic Australian and I recently recieved an award for a short story i wrote which perhaps "appropriated" Aboriginal culutre ... essentially, I had an Aboriginal character who led a non-Aboriginal character into the "Dreamtime."
More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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Arts Law Centre Australia executive director Robyn Ayres called the deal "very significant for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists."
Australia to charge royalty on art resales Joan Druett 2008
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To be regarded by the dominant society of Australia 1965 as being a "boong", "coon" or "Abo" was a passport to discrimination, prejudice and poverty, and many light-skinned Aboriginal people opted to assume a non-Aboriginal identity (Indian, afghan, Maori, etc) to escape the extreme difficulty of life as an Aboriginal person.
what i'm reading 2005
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But for all the distance we have come, we have a long path ahead if we are going to ensure the fullest of opportunities for our greatest resource -- be they non-Aboriginal or Aboriginal youth.
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