INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Assimilation, Siwash Rock, Common Ownership

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

Document Summary

September 11th, 2015: life lived like a story . Simply viewed as contracts the have outlived their usefulness. Not longer have to live up to treaty regulations. Mostly because the indigenous populations have declined (due to assimilation and genocide: relationship between the indigenous peoples and the government as wardship indigenous peoples incapable of making their own decisions and became wards" of the government. Examples: residential schools, boarders, cultural assimilation, enforcement of language, indian act. New ways of understanding the world: can hear them though. New ways of knowing: oral tradition" and oral history", web of stories, common ownership, understandings of wealth, holism vs. capitalism, land views. Commonly owned and exists for the benefit of everyone. For europeans it is private property and individually owned. Knowledge within indigenous communities was highly guarded (i. e. such as medicinal knowledge: history (an indigenous perspective, elders, knowledge keepers, and storytellers. All in highly respected position in their communities.