INDG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eurocentrism, Genetic Testing, Human Genome Project

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000
• Professor: simon Brascoupe

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When the new world and the old world collide. Indg 1000 lecture 2 you"re not the indian i had in mind. John mohawk community to community, reality is different. Can(cid:495)t help but to have an impact. Christopher columbus(cid:495) views were the beginning point for education. 1492 american became dependent upon what men found. Christopher columbus was not the first to come to the new world. He was on an official voyage, thus there was documentation. Seen as strange since there was no previous labels for them. The old world only saw things through the lens of books. King and queen of spain wanted to impose rule by force. Problem of identification of lands and inhabitants. Christopher columbus was on a voyage to discover and acquire. Duty of christopher columbus (who was christian) to rescue the. Civilization had strong government to protect people. Seemed like a gift in the eyes of the colonizers. Meeting with fundamentally different methods of thought.