Political Science 2230E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Leilani Muir, Campbell Scott
15 Mar 2017
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Territory of canada was settled 40,000 years ago by inuit and first nations nomadic hunters, carves, fishers. Indigenous peoples provided britain with military support, economic support, survive canadian climate. Politically contact with aboriginals influenced system of government chosen by us founding fathers, modelled after iroquois confederacy. Internal matters of various nations left to be decided between the nations themselves: sounds like federalism and us system of federal checks and balance. Women played an influential role for early suffragettes as indigenous communities were much more egalitarian. Has been manipulated, i. e. australian settlers ignored aboriginals. Control of an inhabited area only two ways to take away their land. Just war war to defeat previous inhabitants and exert control: treaty colonial power enter into treaty where original inhabitants agree to surrender land or sovereignty and agree to be controlled. During early contact period, dealings between colonialists and first nations occurred on a nation-to-nation basis.
