ID120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blackfoot Confederacy, Romanus Pontifex, Terra Nullius
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The schools harmed indigenous children by removing them from their parents, forcing them to speak english and french in order to disconnect them from their culture. Cbc fails to acknowledge the trauma and cruelty. Almost every time the government talks about residential schools or gives an apology they avoid the land because it is where their wealth is coming from. Pre-contact, indigenous people controlled 100% of land. Today, settlers control 99. 8% of land, indigenous peoples control 0. 2% Within this distribution of the land, you don"t have to have a doctorate in economics to understand who will be poor and who will be rich -arthur manuel. At the time of treaty-making indigenous people never gave up the land - sharon h. venne. The only right settlers have to land is through treaties. Treaties are important for the foundations of canada, but most canadians do not understand treaties.
