POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Legal Fiction, Indian Act
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A legal fiction that any land outside of europe wasn"t owned tareinilieas. The difference of colonies today and before, is an independence in colonies today the group took power, but in canada independence was a slow peaceful process. Indigenous people now exercise 2% of serenity in canada. Presbyterian churches: thousands of children died in the schools. Tens of thousands were physically or sexually abused. Indian residential schools settlement agreement (the largest, most complex class action suit ever settled in canada: truth and reconciliation commission (2009-2015, common experience payment (,000 per student, plus ,000 for each additional year spent at school). English, also set them up for very high level of unemployment: destruction of language and culture: parents and communities can"t teach their children languages and cultures. Most indigenous languages in canada are in-danger: health and addiction, over-representation of indigenous people in prison, violence against indigenous women and girls.
