Astronomy for Canadian Indigenous People Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astronomy-for-canadian-indigenous-people/ Astronomy for a better world! Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:36:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Astronomy for Canadian Indigenous People Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astronomy-for-canadian-indigenous-people/ 32 32 Activities https://astro4dev.org/activities/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:36:32 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18741 The project: – Visited young indigenous people in Quebec, Wendake, and Trois-Rivieres: 3 presentations were organized to present astronomy, Indigenous astronomy, and the career of the first indigenous woman to obtain a PhD in astronomy – Visited the festival of popular astronomy in Mont-Megantic: 3 groupes reached this festival and visited the professional Observatory of [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-11/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:58:17 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18022 Even though 150 years have passed, and despite government efforts to improve the situation, Indigenous people in Canada continue to endure hard living conditions, such as higher rates of unemployment, poor education, bad housing, and poor job prospects. Several government efforts have tried to solve the problem, but these programs had limited success rates. One of [...]

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