POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Radical Change, Indigenous Rights, Nationstates

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 320
• Professor: Sadif Arat- Koc

Document Summary

Lecture outline: contemporary issues regarding indigenous peoples" relationship to the canadian state: Indigenous visions of citizenship: landed citizenship (john borrows: contemporary relationship to the canadian state: decolonization and recolonization: Challenges to decolonization in a period of capitalist globalization: meaning of reconciliation . United nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. In 2007, canada was one of the four states at the un which originally voted against the. Declaration (along with the united states, australia and new zealand). It is important to point how these nation-states are white settler states and has significant indigenous population: canada later signed the declaration in 2010. However, there were contradictory moves from politicians. For example, we also have no history of colonialism. former prime minister harper during a g20 news conference in pittsburgh) He had a formal apology regarding the indian residential schools. However, he claimed after canada did not have a history of colonialism.