Robyn Taylor-Neu, Tracy L. Friedel, Alison Taylor, Tibetha Kemble
Since their official inception in the mid 1800s, Indigenous-aimed welfare policies in Canada have presupposed and entailed a racialized subject: the “lazy Indian.” This paper highlights continuities in how Indigenous subjects have been constructed in welfare policy discourse from 1867 to the present. Building from this historical overview, we analyze how today’s neoliberally inflected federal welfare regime at once recodes and reinscribes preexisting ethical narratives of “productive” and “unproductive” citizens, effectively casting Indigenous peoples as non-workers and thus “undeserving” of welfare relief. As our analysis indicates, further reform of welfare policies for Canada’s First Nations must first puncture the persistent myth of the “lazy Indian” in order to attend to the lasting legacy of colonial governance, contemporary barriers to self-sufficiency, and ongoing struggles for politico-economic sovereignty.
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Pub Date : 2014-03-30DOI: 10.5663/aps.v3i1-2.21707
Janice Forsyth
The 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia have just ended, and I’m taking a moment to reflect on a pattern I’ve noticed over the past several Games. As the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, it’s my job to watch the Games as they unfold in real time and to provide media with commentary and insight on whatever producers deem to be newsworthy items. Well, I don’t really “watch” the Games so much as I follow news about them, mostly online, and monitor the trends in reporting. It’s my responsibility to influence the type of information that gets relayed to the public by educating journalists on the issues behind their stories. For instance, the estimated $3 billion USD that Putin spent on security for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games to minimize the threat of terrorism also helps to legitimize the control of civilians by making sure peaceful protestors don’t disrupt the biggest party in the world by inserting non-sporting narratives, like Native rights and LGBTQ 1 issues, into the public realm. The increased use of advanced surveillance systems and military force to control the public at the Olympic Games is a new phenomenon, and a frightening one at that, for the way people appear to be willing to give up important freedoms in exchange for a massive celebration organized around athletic competitions that leave mostly unused venues and huge public debt in their place. Most journalists understand these patterns when they are given an opportunity to discuss and digest them, but claim there are limitations to what they can say or write, especially if they are working for Olympic broadcasters, which go heavy on sports reporting and light on analysis. All too often, commercial interests trump the need for information.
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Yale D. Belanger, Gabrielle Weasel Head, O. Awosoga
This paper explores the current state of urban Aboriginal housing in Canada, by providing an up-to-date mapping of national urban Aboriginal housing conditions. This paper demonstrates that home ownership helps to reduce the gap between mainstream and Aboriginal rates of core housing need, for Aboriginal renters are substantially worse off than their non-Aboriginal counterparts in terms of core housing need and overcrowding. Métis and Non-Status Indians are also more likely to become homeowners than Status Indians and Inuit. A cyclical process is identified that hinders urban Aboriginal homeownership, and home rental advancement is also discussed. Existing federal housing programs are inadequate to address the housing and homeless issues identified. We highlight the need to establish proactive policies, the goal being to facilitate individual transition into urban centres, thereby helping to ameliorate existing housing disparities.
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