It is safe to say that the indigenous peoples of Canada have had to go through a lot of turbulence to get to where they are today. When you look at the timeline of events and laws implemented since the arrival of Europeans in North America, you can consider it a miracle that so many aspects of the rich culture and tradition of these people have survived to be seen today. It is a blessing that these people were able to pass down their languages, cultural and social beliefs, as well as their stories from generation to generation, so that the people of North America and the world today can learn about and study these peoples civilized. and multifaceted cultures. The Canadian First Nations people have faced many types of oppression since the arrival of the settlers. And although society has slowly made progress in the right direction with respect to eliminating oppression on Aboriginal peoples, there still remains a great inequality between the Aboriginal people of Canada and that of their counterparts of European descent in the forms of their educational differences which lead to employment difficulties and an increase in the crime rate. There is a great inequality between the education of an Aboriginal person and that of a non-Aboriginal person. “Only 31% – about half the Canadian average – of the reserve's Aboriginal population has a high school education” (Center for Social Justice, 2011). This is a staggering number if we stop to consider how difficult it is in our society to succeed in life when you don't have at least a high school education. In the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms every citizen of Canada is guaranteed an education and yet students on these reservations... mid-paper... Aboriginal welfare. Retrieved from http://www.ccsd.ca/cpsd/ccsd/c_ab.htmCenter for Social Justice. (2011). Struggling to escape a legacy of oppression. Retrieved from http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=aboriginal-issuesKavanagh, B. (2006). Teaching in a First Nations school: An information manual for teachers new to First Nations schools. Vancouver, BC: Association of First Nations Schools. Kuokkanen, R. J. (2007). Reshaping the university: Accountability, indigenous epistemes, and the logic of the gift. Vancouver: UBC Press. Roland, K. A. (2009). Examining the underrepresentation of Aboriginal scholars in the Ontario professoriate: Implications for faculty recruitment and retention. Windsor, ON: University of Windsor Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Collection. Retrieved from http://winspace.uwindsor.ca/wintheses/roland1.pdf