FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stereotype, Squaw, Louis Althusser

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

White settler colonialism and violence against indigenous women. Sexual violence as a tool of genocide. Discovery myth: colonization and conquest is denied, to distinguish from the us. Residential school systems, developed to destroy indigenous culture with assimilation. Child welfare systems, ingenious children were taken from families, siblings were separated, no adequate screening process resulted in more violence. Virgin land- canada leading a land to discovery, and indigenous women were open to discovery and exploitation. Displaced with the integration of european women. Fear of miscegenation (i. e. the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types) Indian princess, have been praised by colonizes as saving the white colonizes, they were half blooded and they were imported for colonizes bc they were easy to be taken to the other side. Easy squaw: easy, available, and willing for the white man. Princess: good ingenious women who were willing to work with white men are rewarded with white folk statues, indian princess.