POL 3159 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paradoxical Reaction, Willie Littlechild, Murray Sinclair

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3159
• Professor: Julie Perreault

Document Summary

Aboriginal governments; ignore aboriginal rights; terminate the treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities in canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this (cid:498)for over a century, the central goals of canada(cid:495)s aboriginal policy were to eliminate policy, which can best be described as (cid:494)cultural genocide(cid:495). (cid:499) Cultural genocide: (cid:498)the destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group(cid:499) (cid:498)states that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social. The central instrument of a cultural genocide: institutions of the targeted group. Land is seized, and populations are forcibly transferred and their movement is restricted. Spiritual leaders are persecute, spiritual practices are forbidden, and objects of spiritual value are confiscated and destroyed.