DEVS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Treaty 6, Devs, Secondary Source
20 Mar 2017
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Devs 221 week 7: primary source, an artifact/what you are analyzing. Acts against aboriginal peoples went unnoticed, and the opposite was true in acts against french settlers. Military law gave way to civil authority in settlements, aboriginal people tended to avoid conflict with citizens who regarded indians as vagrants and squatters. Canadian process, often food insecurity arises from economic casualties in indigenous communities, making food insecure. They: collected children for residential school, enforced the pass system, enforced restrictions on dancing and drumming, enforced prohibitions on spiritual practices, removed indians from town limits before dark. Rcmp was complicit but not always in agreement with these practices: rcmp offers first nations communities a dedicated policing servie delivered by a contingent of first nations police officers working within the rcmp. The rcmp first nations community policing service incorporates the principles and objectives of the first nations policing.
