SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Where The Spirit Lives, Canadian Indian Residential School System, Harold Cardinal
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To give more responsibility to the ban government. Era of cultural and technological exchange that wasn"t all linear. Europeans depended a lot on indigenous for stuff like food and transportation. Also great pain with introduction of diseases which indigenous people had no immunity. Questions of sovereignty were settled in one of two ways: the right of. Canadians are beginning to embrace the idea of what canada could become. By 1870 the ideas behind international policy are fully blown and aboriginal people become a problem because they still occupy the land. The role of aboriginal policy is to secure the west. Making treaties ran for for a period of 40 years, to secure canadiana sovereignty over the lands in the vision of john a. In these treaties, indigenous ppl extinguish their sovereignty, in exchange, they receive some kind of money or guarantee of education, supplies, health care, tax arrangement.