SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Manifest Destiny, Wond, Lightning

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Lecture 7 race, ethnicity & aboriginal policy. Skin deep: the science of race film (lecture 6 already covered: the war against the indians film, summer vacation 1999, pre-confederation relations, administered dependency: 1868-1967. Individual and collective rights: 1968-79: constitutional change: 1980-82, courts: post 1990, self-government and land claims, brooks and miljan (flanagan and cairns) In canada the creation of the indian act. Harry rasky war against the indians (continuation of film from last semester) It was thought to think of the indians as savages ignore their tribes and expand where you want. The non-indians feel that they are superior and they can deal with the savages and deal with the utopia there. They used the skills of those individuals there. There were also diseases such as small pox, etc. Most of the indians lived by water this was their mode used for travelling.