Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Indigenous Peoples Day, Idle No More, Sweat Lodge
27 Oct 2016
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These issues are difficult, but important to learn about. This isn"t about making anyone feel guilty or bad". If you feel triggered or really upset, feel free to take a breather outside: it"s about acquiring knowledge and insights into a sensitive set of issues that continue to impact millions of citizens in our country. It"s also about putting new seeds out there" for you: to change a conversation, to add to a discussion, to disrupt stereotypes and racist comments. Before the europeans: tremendous diversity across canada, egalitarian cultural customs and complex political traditions and relationships across nations. The colonial project: treaties, laws restricting movement, hunting, marriage, religious ceremonies and language, voting, residential schools, 60s scoop . Colonial outcomes: over-representation in jails, child welfare crisis, suicide, murdered and missing women, cultural upheaval. Post-colonial experiences (c. late 1960s) among members of the 640 nations in canada vary tremendously: historical and present-day linkages.
