DEVS 100 Lecture 3: Red Power - Decolonization in Canada
13 Feb 2017
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Large of elimination: physical, cultural (body, mind) Physical: stowing indigenous to make settling easy for european: military confrontation. Cultural: indian act, residential schools: replace one"s identity with another. Third world period built colony to independent country. Movement for former colonies to gain independence. Gave framework for indigenous to explain their oppression: parallel to these in third world. Land dispossession: reserves obtain land: exposed to civilizing mission. Claiming independence was claim culture: reclaim your own history, language. The ballad of crowfoot 1968: willie dunn, past and present linked together it is all the same. Post 1945: the lead up to red power. Aboriginal soldiers from war: fought for country yet they are not recognized. Reforms to indian act: undo restrictions on cultural practices. 60s: groups of indigenous people to take up civil rights. Almost 300 movements or protests but not all were red power: young man and women direct action for social activism.
