Aboriginal Women Empowerment Analysis

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The empowerment of Aboriginal women across Canada has critical importance. Empowered Aboriginal women help to make communities all over Canada stronger. They also make for a more diverse work force in Canada. Aboriginal women will be empowered by the national inquiry of missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Empowering Aboriginal women to make a future for themselves has prodigious importance. When women work together and are supported the world only benefits. With a history of oppression Canada needs to realize that by not empowering Aboriginal women they are in fact oppressing them. Empowered Aboriginal women make for a stronger Canada.

Empowered Aboriginal women help to make communities all over Canada stronger. Women have the ability to not only be caring and understanding, but they also have the ability to use their heads to solve problems. With empowered women in communities all over Canada, Canada is living more peacefully and getting stronger. More often than not, this is not happening. Canada needs to realize that only good things can come of women having more prominent roles in their communities. The closer Canada gets to equality; the closer Canada gets to its full
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Indian Residential Schools, the child welfare system, discrimination, and marginalization caused by the Indian Act of 1876, created a lot of issues for Aboriginal women. These things have caused Aboriginal women and girls to be mistreated and disrespected for generations. They have been forced to face not only economic, but also educational disadvantages. These two things have both had wide-reaching and damaging impacts. One of these affects is poverty. Across Canada nine percent of Canadians live in poverty, and of the nine percent, thirty-six percent of those who are currently living in poverty are Aboriginal