INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kugaaruk, Paternalism, Cultural Genocide

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

Salish perceptions of the virgin mary (a tribe) First half of semester: grounding us about historical foundations. Second half of semester: start getting into traumatic lectures- deeper. Upon request in the columbia river plateau. Missions established as part of the colonial drive in france and spain. Arrived in the plateau at the request of interior saliests. Arrives at a turbulent time in the plateau history. Increasing contact btwn indg ppl and foreign ideas and objects (increase new ideas, objects and new diseases-1839) Because it"s a source of to meet the age of the new. Jesuit brought centuries of territory- they bring conventional european view of european family viewed as a model of european genderless. Women described as being humble, conserved, modest. Always suffering and sorrowing for her son. Marry was subordinate to her son and her father. Hoping that if indg ppl can relate to catholicism then maybe they would forget their own spiritual beliefs.