Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Indian Act, Cultural Genocide, Powdered Milk

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1002A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Key concepts: aboriginal peoples, colonilaism/ colonization, the embodiment of inequity, indian act (1867, assimilation, royal commission on aboriginal peoples, residential schools, cultural genocide, igirs, double bothering, bill c-31. Aboriginal people in canada: aboriginal peoples (p. 120): includes first nations (north american indian), metis and. Inuit peoples: 1,172,790 (3. 8% of total pop. ) 689,025 = first nations (north american indian) Geographic distribution: how different aboriginals are distributed around canada. Diversity of aboriginal peoples: many fn bands, nations, languages (p. 121)-many linguistic groups, bc alone includes at least 28 first nations peoples including: coast salesian, haida, Tlingit: important to remember the diversity of aboriginal peoples!! Cree, blackfoot, mi"kmaq: on-reserve, off-reserve, status-exempt from taxes, non-status-don"t have the rights the status indians do. Demographic patterns: population reductions after extended contact with europeans. Infectious disease outbreaks > measles, in uenza, smallpox, tuberculosis: exact gures and statistics are debated but population declines due to.