Geography 2411F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chisso, Environment Of Canada, Oil Sands
16 Apr 2018
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Indigenous environments changing relationships with the environment: colonization, contamination. Identities, cultures and well-being of indigenous people are intimately bound to their local environments. Environmental dispossession: direct and indirect ways in which indigenous peoples access to their traditional lands, resources and territories is reduced or eliminated. Indirect forms of dispossession: political processes that alter or sever indigenous peoples ties to their traditional homelands eg. adjustments to environmental bills paved the way for pipelines; intention, colonization indian act, community relocation. Colonization: establishment of new colonies by imperial interests global expansion in search of new resources. Colonizing nations generally dominate the natural resources, labour, markets, governance, and education systems of the new territory. How does this happen: clashing philosophical understanding between indigenous people and new settlers created many challenges for the developmental agenda of the new nation: (cid:862)i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:373)anage/ considered in the way. New colonial populations impose new structures on the indigenous populations.
