SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nellie Mcclung, Indian Act, Incrementalism
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The history of social welfare in canada : our colonial inheritance. Response, reaction, amendment, critique and change: understand the impact of policy on diverse populations, history is destined to repeat itself (it is our active work to challenge this) People must know the past to understand the present and to face the future (nellie mcclung, cited in savage, 2014) Early indigenous/settler relations: alliances between european settlers and indigenous people to preserve best interests (e. g. , preservation of resources, land usage and settlement, economic trade), respect of land rights and sovereignty. Royal proclamation of 1763 defined jurisdictions of colonial settlement from first. Indian policy imperialism & colonialism: imperialist policies that were primary of benefit for the european empire. To further economic development of the european empire (e. g. fur trade) To protect european settlement on the colonial state (e. g. military alliances, land treaties: colonialism used to expand european settlement.
