GWST 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Smallpox, First Nations, Nuclear Family
8 Dec 2016
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The intergenerational violent effects of colonization disease; poverty; Celia has visions of first european contact: the tall ships nightmare. The tall houses of the past are replaced by small houses of present. The rape of first nations women by the colonists who have come with no women and the first foreign disease (sexually transmitted, likely syphilis) Politics of starvation to encourage first nations into treaties: links to present day health disparities between aboriginal and mainstream. Culture is dynamic, is changes over time. /ghetto) versus white town separated by a bridge over a river. The material aspects of each place (food; furniture etc. ) The family structure (nuclear family of snowden) Differences in approach to and access to health care. In novel: dominic cannot help using traditional ways. Traditional first nation: bush medicines and spiritual medicine. Wild medicine seen as weeds; (wilderness as desolate wasteland)
