SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Northern Canada, Native Americans In The United States, Experimental Lakes Area
19 Apr 2016
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Policies and practices of colonialism influence health in a multitude of ways. Specifically towards aboriginal people: ban on alcohol, residential school system, acts of violence due to colonialism, land reserve system. Added a key concept on to the slide from lecture 6: assimilationist principles. Colonial agents and missionaries transformed aboriginal life and communities forever through schooling. Europeans, missionaries, colonial explorers imagined that they could save the souls of. > forced assimilation through seizing land and resources and forcing them to change their way of life. > framed this as a good, christian, humanitarian act. Intervention strategies we do today are also framed a certain way. Europeans mistakenly saw them as savages, simple, uncivilized, inferior, children of the state, incapable of managing their own affairs. Assimilation principles and policies were adopted as a result to make them adopt european language, culture, and practices.
