ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rick Hill, Indigenous Rights, Pleistocene

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3A03
• Professor: Professor Coleman

Document Summary

Lecture seven the international stage, beyond the purview of the nation- state. This legal process transforms indigeneity from a relationship to land to being a race, often with specific implications for gender, sex, and blood quantum. Politics of sovereignty: indigenous resistance to oppression is often aimed at. It is a call to basic consciousness that has industrialized world presented by the most politically powerful and independent non- western political body surviving in north america. Diffusionism-> refers to the transmission of cultural characteristics or traits from the common society to all other societies. They criticized the psychic unity of mankind of evolutionists. According to them all cultures originated at one point and then spread throughout the world. Delgamuukw vs. british columbia (1984), passed on to supreme court in. Delgamuukw vs. queen (1997) that their oral narratives proved they had lived intimately on the land for centuries and the land was illegally acquired by the crown in the 19th century.