HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Flush Toilet, Infant Mortality, Murray Sinclair
15 Oct 2017
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Shows the history of indigenous people in canada and the impact of settler colonialism and teaches the indigenous rights history we are rarely taught . Going back in history, the land that we now call north america was known to many indigenous groups as turtle island. In the royal proclamation of 1763, king george the third said that indigenous nations own their lands, and that europeans had to make treaties with the existing nations if they wanted control of those lands. Eventually, there were more europeans than indigenous people: partly this was because more and more europeans arrived and settled on the land, producing large families, but more importantly, millions of indigenous people died of infectious diseases. Having never had european diseases like smallpox, measles and tuberculosis, indigenous people had no immune resistance: perhaps as many as half the indigenous people alive at the time of contact died from infectious diseases.
