HIS318H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social History, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act
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Intro to course scope and themes: methodology and research skills development, overall grading criteria and assignments. Indigenous languages and language groups within history of canada. Artifacts and contemporary art: reorient the way people think about the history of canada, red cedar mask, hot commodity, everything is transitory in canadian history. Donald smith driving the last spike: entered into canada"s declaration of sovereignty, many hidden layers within photograph, social history of canada. Narrative about the west: a lot of narrative about the west is from the united states. Thinking of the west and the people that have inhabited it: ongoing process, communities not only endured, but were able to build thriving business and resisted racism, repression and resistance. Immigration in all forms is still part of colonial history: all newcomers to canada were and still are part of the colonial project, gabriel dumont, leader of northwest uprising, military commander.
