HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Smallpox, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, White Supremacy
4 Apr 2016
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Children are often made powerless, but there are also times when adults are powerless. But the first nations peoples are still the evil" ones: just because louie sam was murdered by vigilantes, does not mean that people on. They had the same intentions and attitude towards. Nations in 1884 and in 2014 is no different. We still don"t understand their culture, we are still racist. Things might have changed on the outside, but they are still the same on the inside: ultimately there is no justice for louie sam because he was part of the first. The main focuses in the book are colonialism, racism, social injustice and the other themes are majority vs. minority, family relationships, healthcare system, child labour, education system. Injustice continues even today but in a different shape and colour. The injustice with natives is even happening today (a highway in manitoba or. When the settlers came to north america, it wasn"t an empty place.
