Writing a Letter to Government Officials on Key Issues Affecting Indigenous History, Identity, and C

Identifying the Issues: Exploring Key Issues Affecting Indigenous History, Identity, and Culture in Contemporary Canada

Letter to the Government Official (20%) The learner is to draft a letter that explores a key issue or issues that applies to the content learned from the course materials about Indigenous History, Identity and Culture and how that key issue or issues has a direct effect on contemporary Canada. The learner will identify the issue, explain the background causing/contributing to the issue, include an oppositional statement with supporting information for your position (i.e. citation/reference), and concluding the letter with a recommendation or desired outcome of which the learner is advocating. This letter is intended to be sent to which ever government official has the ability to affect the policy or legislation change or address the topics that the learner is addressing. Here are some examples of suggested government officials, with whom the learner may want to contact: Member of Parliament (where the learner resides), Minister of Parliament, Chief or Band Council for the Indigenous Nation (where the learner resides at or is a member), the Prime Minister of Canada, City Mayor, or Provincial Premier. The learner should have a reasonable understanding that the government official, to whom they are writing, actually has the legal ability to explore/affect the change that the learner is asking. Therefore, do not address your letter to the Mayor of Calgary, if you are asking for Federal Statute changes. This is a graded learning activity. Please refer to the enclosed rubrics located at the Drop Boxes, for guidance, on what the evaluation will be based. The assignment will be written in business letter style with a minimum of two pages and a maximum of three pages, double-spaced, and will include a title page. All assignments will include proper in-text sourcing and a references list, following the APA 7th Edition. All information written must show where it was sourced. The objective is for the learner to select a topic affecting the Indigenous Peoples in contemporary Canada, and show the origins for that topic as learned from the course materials, and to support their position with the course materials, (as well as outside information found through your own research), culminating with a recommendation for change by the learner to the government official.