POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oka Crisis, Ipperwash Crisis, James Bay And Northern Quebec Agreement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

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Aboriginal: a descendant of any of the indigenous peoples who inhabited canada before the arrival of european settlers. First nations- register or status indians, non-status indians. Mattie"s (cid:498)) want to get rid of the )ndian problem until there is not a single )ndians in canada no )ndian department(cid:499) Charles lora (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)4(cid:882)(cid:524): (cid:498))n the end, of course, the civilization is the rate at which (cid:523))ndian culture(cid:524) should be eliminated or superseded or changed(cid:499) Trudeau"s liberal understanding: that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no indian question and. Native social problems arose from the fact that they were not treated as equal. We cannot possibly make up for the past: we must be just in our time. But the white paper did not (meaningfully) consult aboriginal leaders. Many natives do not see themselves as canadian citizens. Very few natives have noted since 1960.