Sentences with phrase «first nation history»

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

First Nations histories An extensive gathering of resources on the history of Native American tribes.

Cape Scott Provincial Park is rich with First Nations history.

Landmarks in First Nations history and great outdoor adventures make up the top attractions in Saskatchewan.

After this strong display of First Nations history and colonization I experienced a strong disconnect when I moved on to the displays on the settlers.

The latter mostly do not appreciate the First Nations history, intergenerational trauma and current circumstances and ignore really important local knowledge that could make considerable differences to use of services, their trust by First Nations peoples and their ability to prevent and treat diseases.

Excavations in the course of construction or renovation have discovered human remains, garbage dumps, artefacts or other evidence of our First Nations history.

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He then enrolled in First Nations University in Regina, studying the history of North American Indian reservations and the effects of colonialism.

On June 23, U.K. citizens will decide if their nation will become the first member state to exit the EU in its 58 - year history.

For the first time in our nation's history, there are more seniors 65 and older than children under 15, and the gap between the two will widen for years to come.

«This is the only chance we will have to make history right,» says Charlie Okeese, a counsellor and former chief of the Fort Hope First Nation, a community larger than Marten Falls but farther away from the prime mining targets.

For the first time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wfirst time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wFirst Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wants.

«Today we make history: Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet,» Washington Governor Jay Inslee said Monday, as he signed the legislation.

Other worries for residents are the impact of pipeline construction on the environment (75 %), the possibility of infringing upon the rights of communities living along the pipeline path (67 %), the project's impact on First Nations communities (also 67 %), a lack of trust in Enbridge (65 %) and Enbridge's history of incidents (60 %).

Across the nation, more women are attending college than men, and according to a CNBC article and research from the Institute of Family Studies, 2015 marked the first time in history that wives were better educated than their husbands.

Delaware is one of the nation's first states, and it carries that tradition and history with it to this day.

Michael Wolff's new book, FIRE AND FURY: INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE is the first up - close portrait of the strangest presidency in the history of the nation.

Certainly they had good reason to implement the First Amendment as it was, given the history of religious persecution in England, but they absolutely did not intend for anyone to consider the country a Christian nation.

This is the first nation in the history of the world that's an idea — it's not an ethnic group — and these ideas are vital ideas, and we want to share them, and we have shared them with the whole world.

We were the first nation in history to supplant theocracy, with liberty.

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

Residential schools, forced assimilation, racism, systemic murder, crippling economic inequalities, lack of adequate schooling, we have a disgusting history as a nation when it comes to our First Nations.

H.Res.253, America's Spiritual Heritage Resolution, affirms the rich spiritual and diverse religious history of our nation's founding and subsequent history, and designates the first week in May as America's Spiritual Heritage Week.

No other nation would be allowed to exempt themselves from the torture they inflicted on others so that they could close that chapter in their history without there first being some kind of reckoning in the international court.

Ya but Obama is possibly the first president in the history of this nation to admit this country is not exclusively a Christian nation.

Many of us have not been especially sensitive to the difference between the two meanings because in European history nations in the second sense came into being largely to express the aspirations of nations in the first sense.

I have never used marijuana nor have any plans to do so, but for the first 150 years of our history as a nation, it was legal and used in nearly 80 % of the medicines of the 19th c. George Washington grew it on Mt. Vernon.

Lincoln's vision of Union is so thoroughly accepted today that we forget how hotly disputed it was for the first seventy years of our nation's history.

With more than 232 years of continuous operation and roots going back even further, Laird and Company can stake a place in American history as the nation's first commercial distillery.

Our history books are filled to the brim with details of our nation's presidents, but what about their wives — our first ladies?

The 22 year old already has 10 international goals, and made history and became the darling of his nation by scoring in Poland's first ever victory over Germany.

For the first time in Sun Belt history, three offensive linemen from the same school made first - team all - conference, a credit to the Mountaineers» stunning total of just eight sacks allowed this season, second in the nation only to Army.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

That won't matter too much to either of these sides, as both are excited to be playing in the first Euro knockout phase matches in their nation's history.

5 — Iceland became the first nation in European Championship history to name the same starting XI in five consecutive games.

Heritage Park is looking for Aboriginal applicants (18 years and older) interested in interpreting the history and culture of Treaty 7 First Nations or of Métis Culture for our many park visitors for the summer and fall season.

Once the home and fortress of the «Deer Tribe» of the Petun First Nations people, this area is rich in history, with lore and history posted along the self - guided tour.

According to the newly released The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, women now make up half the work force for the first time in written history!

For the first time in the history of our nation, children's lifespans will be shorter than that of their parents.

H.E John Dramani Mahama will go down in history as the first Northerner to have served a full term and on the verge of going second term, due to his historical development across the nation.

Idaho woman challenges establishment and history in hope of becoming nation's first Native American governor

This book reveals the previously untold history of how the individuals and innovations of the Howard Dean campaign came to play a starring role in the effort to elect the nation's first African American president.

Throughout our nation's history many women - related in different ways to the President — acted as «First Lady».

Mr. Wike said the president's visit was «historic» in two ways: one, it was his first to the state since he (Buhari) assumed office, and secondly, it was for «the largest environmental clean - up in our nation's history».

Hempstead also made history in 2009 when it changed the name of the former Ludlum Elementary School to Barack Obama Elementary School, the first school in the nation to bear the president's name.

Obasanjo, who traced the nation's socio - economic and political history from independence to date, said the First Republic generation, led by its founding fathers, gave the country independence, but noted with sadness that the present generation had nothing to offer.

Should he decide to contest, he be the first ex-president to run for president in the nation's history.

(CNN)-- In the latest installment of CNN = Politics Daily, Barack Obama built his campaign on «change» - change in Washington, change in the way candidates run a presidential campaign, and change in the nation's history when he is sworn as the first African - American president.

First - In - The - Nation Law Will Require Doctors To Check Patient Prescription History And Pharmacists To Update Database In Real Time The New York State Legislature has unanimously passed the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act, or I - STOP.

Each of the four nations of the UK was won by a different political party for the first time in history — each party being disproportionately over-represented within that region.