SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Settler Colonialism, Indian Act, Gender Role
7 Feb 2018
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Legacies of colonialism: residential schools and school sisters . January 24th, 2018: trace the history of colonial violence, thunder bay: under scrutinization for police brutality and discrimination against. Indigenous lack adequate housing, adequate water, education, etc : they move to thunder bay for schooling, they are often missing and found in water- drowned, often times, no investigations take place, stereotypes of indigenous people: drunks. The highway of tears: stretch of highway where young women went missing or were found murdered along highway 16- now referred to the highway of tears, all but one of these women were aboriginal victims. Relationship between thunder bay and highway of tears: they are moving from their communities to these places to obtain adequate housing, education, etc and they go missing and murdered. Violence against thunder bay"s indigenous women: the history of settler colonialism and systemic racism allows for indigenous bodies to be.
