HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Land Run, Pemmican War, Pemmican
14 Apr 2016
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01/26--appropriating indigenous territories and canada"s imperial empire in the west. Developing a sense of identity and nationhood. The formation of the metis collective: 1812-1855. Anishinaabe sign treaty that affects cree land w/out cree consent. Imperial and indigenous spheres coming into contact and creating complex conflicts. Metis artists combined eur/indg clothing designs--works b/came v fashionable/in demand. Metis can have french/cath or eng/prot ancestry. B4 confed, west seen as useless wasteland. Canadian politicians want 2 make new territories english/prot so as to stifle qc power--expansion becomes a poli issue. Imperial interests of can drive new interest in west. Colonies had 2 hav enough non-indg settlers to ensure non-indg dominance. Challenging the canadian myth of peaceful western expansion. Imperial expansion is encroaching on indg land that was never ceded, ignoring indg borders, histories. Colonialist ideas of racial superiority over indg ppls/metis. Colony created, actually met most of metis demands--namely that metis were granted land title for themselves/children.
