CRI364H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Indian Act, Body Politic, Phil Fontaine
20 Jun 2020
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Politics of recognition threaten to reproduce the very configuration of racism, colonialism, patriarchal state power: state is chief perpetrator of violence, justice cannot be found in its institution, agencies and programs. Indigenous population who would both cost the government less and, due to adult sedentaryness, not stand in the way of colonial land acquisition and settlement. Indian act was anchored in discourses set forth by its predecessor, the 1869. Act for the gradual enfranchisement of indians: he purpose of the enfranchisement act was to standardize how aboriginal people could legally possess land and territory. Imbedded within the rhetoric of the enfranchisement act, and thus found in the indian act, were colonial assumptions about indigenous peoples" childlike nature and their potential for growing up" into a more elevated state of non- Indigenousness through the attainment of identity characteristics deemed suitable by eurocolonial subjects: colonial rhetoric about aboriginal peoples, then, turned on tacit assumptions of.
