HS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: First Nations, Sixties Scoop, Cultural Hegemony
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Definitions- aboriginal/indigenous: descendants of the original north americans, about 4. 3% of canadian population. Inuit 4% (of the 4%: metis 32% (of the 4%, first nations 61% (of the 4%) Determinants of aboriginal health: distal variables: macro level contextual & historical colonialism, proximal or individual level direct impacts. Health discrimination: dominant groups retain their privileges, by subordinating the groups they oppress . Ideological justification of their actions: allege that aboriginal persons are inferior. The dominant group: usually deny discrimination exists , does not articulate their prejudices, believes in their own superiority, deny responsibility for the plight of the oppressed peoples . The treaty process: treaties, begin as agreements and alliances, then became remarkably one-sided in part due to the on-going health genocide. Medicine chest: 1860s before the time of hospitals, carrying the tools and the medicines and knowledge of the person involved in it. Mobile way of administering to the population and take care of their health problems.
