INDG 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Personality, Egalitarianism, Syilx

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1001H
• Professor: David Newhouse

Document Summary

Tobacco is offered to open up relationships is seen as respectful. Tobacco is used because it comes from the earth very hard to grow. If someone accepts tobacco it is considered a contract. Connects families to make them one big family if shared tobacco. Treaties are the notion that people give gifts to one another. Share space through the notion of gift giving. Indigenous people are getting an education: many treaties. Aboriginal modernity: ethos: confident, assertive, political, insistent, structuring force, blending aboriginal ideas and theories, euro-american ideas and theories, not adaption but fusion. Institutionalization: urbanization, re-traditionalization, self-governance, reclamation of identity expression, textual transformation. Key modern aboriginal desire: use indigenous ideas and theories as key informing principles and foundations of everyday life. Indigenous knowledge: relatively new to our western consciousness, cultural knowledge, low on hierarchy of knowledges. Indigenous knowledge brant-castellano definition: personal, oral, experiential, holistic, conveyed in narrative or metaphorical language.