GGR240H1 Lecture 10: Lecture #10 Notes
10 Jan 2017
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Presence of the united states, seen as a global power. Moving north to seattle, yukon for gold. Establishing sovereignty at chilkoot summit: the mounties. The quality/class of the people who would travel along the chilkoot pass was seen to be lower class people. After the rush: the alaska boundary settlement (1903) Indigenous communities in the northwest during the gold rush era was overwhelmed by the increased amount of settlers. Little people actually got rich form the gold rush, the rst gold miners took all the gold at. Best left as indians - canadian policy towards indigenous northerners in the late 19th/ early 20th century. Classify indigenous people as culturally distinct people. Displaced from dawson, moving away from the river. Gave them 180 acres of land for all the indigenous people to reside in. Segregation spatially, and later affecting their segregation economically and politically as well, affected them in the future.
