Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Genocide, Indian Act

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

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Hs 1002 lecture 11 (cid:862)colonization of indigenous people(cid:863) Key terms: aboriginal peoples, colonialism/colonization, the embodiment of inequity, indian act (1876, assimilation, royal commission on aboriginal peoples, residential schools, cultural genocide, igirs, double othering bill. Aboriginal people in canada include the first nations, metis and inuit and all their (cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)espo(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s/t(cid:396)i(cid:271)es (cid:894)c(cid:396)ee, bla(cid:272)kfoot, mi"k(cid:373)a(cid:395)(cid:895) Native populations decreased after settler contact and shifted over time. These effects have lasted until today and are ingrained in health statistics. One of the ways to reverse the effects of colonization is to try to restore conditions that enabled people to be self determinant and self govern. Colonialism involves the oppression of one cultural group by another and includes the p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess of (cid:862)othe(cid:396)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) that so(cid:396)t populatio(cid:374)s i(cid:374)to (cid:272)atego(cid:396)ies. Colonization racist practices because of the way they position certain groups as inferior. Is also internalized as the experience of inferiority and hopelessness, which can lead to many detrimental effects such as self-abuse, etc.