ANTH 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Malcolm Laws, Squaw, 1969 White Paper
Document Summary
Things are quickly changing in canadian indigenous issues. Child welfare: children living on reserves now receiving the same amount of money for child care (they were previously receiving less ex. Children who were removed from their families by the gov. and church missions. Allowed children to be taken away from their parents without needing to establish that they were mistreated in any way. *confrontation of systemic racism and its affects on the relationship between europeans and indigenous peoples. Levers of oppression (many different aspects i. e. education, health care, poltical rights etc. ) Denied safety and security (lack of rights and empowerment) Human rights violations we were children reflection the conditions of the residential schools: Diseases ad epidemics and death (possible 6,000 deaths: not well documented and families were not well informed, mass graves and unmarked graves, no ind. burial rituals) Denied parents food rations or treaty payments if they kept kids out of school * no actual laws.
