EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Genocide, Psychological Abuse, Revised Version
21 Nov 2016
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Passed by the british parliament in 1867. This allowed for the creation of the canadian pacific railway(cpr) It was a private company that did public projects with an extending railway all across canada. Literary nationalism: the problems and their solutions, then and now, the past and the present: a protection for canadian literature, confederation poets. The codification of the disappearing indian : furthering the royal proclamation of 1763 along with the gradual. Celebrated the indians as significantly canadian: but it also took away the indian status from those who no longer fell under the definition of an indian . If your father was european, then you were not considered an indian. If your father was an aboriginal, then you were considered as an indian. Eventually led to the residential school system. Religious schools that force young aboriginal children to leave their families and to give up on their language, culture, traditions, and beliefs.
