HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stadacona, Lower Canada, Settler Colonialism
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Forgetting indigenous peoples has become central to national histories of countries born of settler colonialism. Histories claiming to be about indigenous peoples alone are almost always at least as much about nonindigenous peoples, particularly the state. That is part of the story of immigration; it is not some other, parallel history. (paul spickard, almost all aliens: Immigration, race, and colonialism in american history and identity (new york: routledge, Land is the crux of both indigenous-immigrant history and of continued relations/tensions today, though often unspoken ideas of race are critical, too. Insufficient to compare/contrast historical experience; need to consider them together to change our vision of canadian history as a whole. Making indigenous peoples and immigrants speak to canadian history alone: all indigenous nations and immigrant groups have their own histories that are as legitimate as canada"s, these histories do not exist solely for canada"s benefit o.
