HIST 325 Lecture Notes - Dalhousie University, Miscegenation, Ewan Macdonald
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Review: chinatowns and the vancouver anti-asiatic riots, 1907. South asians as the new target: riots a combination of majority canadians" fear of economic competition and sense of racial superiority. E. pauline johnson, mohawk poet, writer, and entertainer. Lucy maude montgomery, pei author, anne of green gables (1908) (so similar, Why was johnson special: intelligent, well-read, notable in the late 19th and early 20th century in canada, Us, gb: great beauty; of mixed indian and english ancestry, widely-published poems and internationally-famous performances celebrated equally her indian heritage and her patriotism for canada and the british. Empire: many of her poems called for reconciliation and brotherhood between. Canadian and native peoples; that quality is studied closely today. But we of the north will answer, while life in the north remains, Let the curs beware lest the whelps they dare are the riders of the plains.
