POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Third Order, Individual And Group Rights, Derogation
19 Jan 2018
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Changing terminology and the politics of identity: the impact of the charter: abo look more at societal rights where are the charter looks more at individual rights, group rights in an era of individual rights. Diversity within the aboriginal population: highly heterogeneous: one policy does not fit all, one policy may/does not fit all. Integration and assimilation: residential schools, language and culture. Aboriginal self-government: royal commission on aboriginal; peoples, abiding by historical treaties. Aboriginal sovereignty: third order of government: they were never conquered, equal to federal and provincial government (never third level, sovereignty was never relinquished. Been here for upwards of 40,000 years and didn"t believe in private ownership of land- they were trustees of the land for future generations: sanctity of written contracts, ex. European contact: interest in fur trade, negotiated treaties, hudson"s bay company (currently american owned) European conflict: plain of abraham: seven years war, treaty of paris 1763, set into place cultural domination.
