ANTH 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Register, Manitoulin Island, Canada Goose

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2660
• Professor: Edward Hedican

Document Summary

Movie info will be posted on courselink. Bill c-31: pages 227-229 new update not on midterm, designed to eliminate discrimination against aboriginal women, court case geal turned down for status because she left the grandfather slot on her. Ontario is fairly low, and the middle zone between the two has the highest. Methodology: ethnography fieldwork, participant/observation, ethnology comparative studies. Significant aboriginal issues: land claims aboriginal rights, comprehensive, i. e. nunavut 1999, specific, restricted areas. Social services/health: manitoulin island, anthropologist at winnipeg, north vs. south have different diets. Political/administrative: only one study has been done, the hidden agenda , by sally weaver, a few people making decisions without much knowledge. Consultants and the james bay cree - 1970"s: hydro was going to dam rivers for power, the people under 25 needed to fight as they were the only ones able to speak english, French, and cree: billy diamond formed the grand council of the cree.