CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Assimilation, Transcendental Function, Stoning

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Maureen Connolly

Document Summary

Diversity and difference in contemporary quebec lecture 4 notes- march 31, 2017. In general canadian usage, indigenous , aboriginal , and first nations are used interchangeably to designate the first peoples on this land. Constitution act of 1982: aboriginal people comprise three groups: first nations , inuit, and. The aboriginal question is part and parcel of the ontological, historical fiber of canadian and. Qu bec society it cannot be easily resolved it will always remain embedded in the constitutional dynamics of our country, subject to a permanent, contradictory, and pluralist debate (simard qtd. Thus we are reminded that before the quebec question arose, we had the reality of indigenous. As we"ve seen, early in settler history indigenous people played important roles in trade and were power brokers between british and french forces (papillon 447). After conquest, indigenous people were treated differently from the french under british rule.