Urban Aboriginal People

Urban Aboriginal People

A Study of Urban Aboriginal Gangs

During recent years, Aboriginal gang activity in Canada is growing. The involvement of Aboriginal youth in gang activities poses high risks on the welfare of society. This paper will analyze the different factors that led Aboriginal women and youths to enroll in gang movement which occurred as a result of social dejection, distress, economic inequality and gender biases with a focus on the different aboriginal peoples gangs and dynamics of the gang groups in that area.Gangs in Winnipeg, Canada, provides an ideal case for the study of various aspects regarding urban aboriginal gangs. A focus will be on different Aboriginal gangs working in that area, the various factors that contribute to enrollment of Aboriginal people in gangs in Winnipeg and finally discusses the basic problems faced by them with an effort to solve them.

According to Stoler,

“Representations of rebellion is paramount in organizing mechanism, both in the handling of information about Aboriginal street gangs in Canada and within the formation of an “ethical” common social order. Numerous anthropological studies concentrate on the role(s) the law played in the cultural conversions of imperialism, inspecting how the law served as a central mode for exerting power and with increasing time, resulted in backlash from colonized people. These studies, likewise, uncovered the courses in which the laws additionally set the atmosphere for rebellion”.

One of the primary impacts of these laws was to provide scenarios that created borders, social and sexual, between colonized and prevailing communities. Canadian law, even today, presses on to characterize personhood and attempts to settle boundaries based upon class, race, and sexual orientation. Juridical classes, along with regulative conventions work to reinforce the notion of class structure and race segregation as a common event. The negative presentation by the government of Aboriginal youth further encourages them to be involved in criminal activities. As the Aboriginals do not have a strong voice in the new constitutions and national policy making (in which the rights of the youths are discussed), the utilization and trafficking of illegal merchandise presents an opportunity for them to get the protection, which the state denies them.

Aboriginal gangs in Winnipeg, declare authority over their own dominions, by controlling subversive stories and practices that aise out of the need for material and psychological survival in the streets. The Aboriginal gangs are not only involved in law breaking, but different aspects of legal and street law are combined. This makes the operation of the gangs more complex and unconventional, making it even more difficult for researchers to understand the dynamics for their criminal activities.

Aboriginals and Society

Both Indigenous individuals and youth have generally been focused for a mixture of race-particular and age-particular substance denials, owing to assumptions about the issues relating to their boundaries. Prohibitive exertions to legislate ethics and morality, specifically targeting race related liquor prohibition laws, have made the Native individuals and Canadian youth ethically defenseless and unable to represent their choices. Research has shown that aboriginal females and Native youth ...