SA 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Supremacy, Indian Act, Racialization
16 Apr 2016
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Race: biological/physical components of categorizing ppl"s populaion or group. Ethnicity: shared naional/cultural tradiion/idenity of ppl (ex. being canadian) Race : in colonial power days, relects beliefs about biological superiority/inferiority, white supremacy, but don"t exist as clear biological eniies among humans (not set in stone, many dif. types) Aboriginals oten deined by special legal statuses, separaing them from non-aboriginals and from each other. Indian act (1876): sexist deiniion of indian established all men, children and wives of the men belong to man"s tribe/band; man kept status while women lost hers if married to non-indian man (as her children). However, non-naive woman gained indian status if married indian man. Inuit: been in canada for shorter ime fed. Govt. took responsibility of inuits only when wanted to make territorial claims in arcic. Meis: hbc sold most of its land w/o regarding meis" land rights. Meis fought against but govt. coninually mistreated their rights.
