Cree People and Stereotypes

If one were to nerve for images of innate throng in various forms of mainstream media such as magazines, newspapers, and television, they are correspondingly to disclose these common stereotypes: the pitiful victim, the ireful warrior or the noble conservationist (The Royal Commission on Aboriginal People,1996b). Stereotype is an constitute of reducing, simplifying and categorising characteristics of individuals or a grouping of people in our onslaught to sympathise them, which excludes and marginalizes certain individuals and affable groups in the process and befuddle many damaging make on Indigenous communities. However, in this paper, I will consider that not only about Indigenous communities in Canada confine been aware of the stereotypes of them, they have too learned to use them constructively in order to fishing gear environ psychical and social issues that instill their livelihood. Since environmental issues, such as the damage caused crude extraction, mine and logging, are intertwined with social issues like poverty and substance abuse, it is big to first define their kinship to one another ahead attempting to show evidence of how the Cree fraternity in Canada has succeeded in victimisation these stereotypes to their advantage. Finally, I will emanate on to discuss how Cree peoples have make progress in the reconstruction of their identity using these stereotypes.\nIn order to make wiz of the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues that Indigenous face in Canada, it is necessary for one to understand the relationship in the midst of Indigenous people and their land. It is not save one between earthly concern and their surroundings, it is a very spiritual, emotional, mental and physical relationship between human beings and their surroundings (Beverley Jacobs, 2010). Thus, environmental issues caused by overexploitation of resources has had a profound effect on Indigenous peoples livelihood. T?ake the curr ent oil tar sands exploitation in Alberta as an e...