Types of Empowerment
This type of empowerment is having the ability to do something about your needs, wants, opinions, beliefs, and feelings.
Personal Empowerment
This group of individuals have historically experienced disempowerment at the hands of European Settlers and then the Canadian Government.
Indigenous People
This type of authority gives the Government of Canada the authority to make laws that all Canadians must follow.
Legal Authority
A milestone that canadians can get access to when they turn 18.
What kind of disempowerment do members of minority groups, such as Indigenous people, often experience?
Societal
_______________ is the ability to have enough wealth to take care of your needs.
Economic Empowerment
The rights of every person to be empowered economically, politically, culturally, and socially. These also include the right of a person to be a citizen of a nation and to have other nations respect this fact.
Human Rights
A group of Canadians who have the legal authority to uphold and maintain laws.
Police Officers
Mowing lawns, babysitting, delivering papers are examples of this way that you can increase your personal empowerment.
Work
The name of an organization that works to protect human rights around the world....
Amnesty International
__________ comes from having a say in how things are organized and how decisions are made.
Political Empowerment
An institution that was run by religious and governmental groups that aided in the disempowerment of indigenous people, especially indigenous children.
Residential Schools
This is a set of rules a goverment must follow in order to protect Canadians from harm.
Constitution
The study of how people work to create wealth
Economics
This gives the children a right to grow up in a welcoming home, the right to play, and the right to get an education.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Being free to practise your culture, no matter how large or small a group your culture is in society.
Cultural Empowerment
The convention that was signed in 1990 that says "that children have the right to grow up in a welcoming home, the right to play, and the right to get an education".
Convention of the Rights of the Child
The name of Canada's constitution.
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
This term refers to a way of life.
Culture
Timmy's Mom does not believe that school is important. Timmy wants to go to school but his Mom doesn't take him and did not register him for school. Which of Timmy's rights is being violated?
The right to an education
__________ comes from all members of society being treated fairly and equally.
Societal Empowerment
Between the 1860's- 1930's 100 000 children were taken from institutes in Great Britian and brough to Canada. What were these children called?
Home Children
Canada's age of majority.
18 or 19
______ involves everything people do when they live, work, and play together in communities.
Society
This term is used to refer to students who were workers. Meaning they would have to stay wutgh the family and work until they were 18.
Indentured