LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Historical Method, North West Company, Protestantism
30 Sep 2020
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Conquest and the experience of native peoples in canada. Unseeded crown lands -- customary indig rights were held in trust by the crown and could only be changed through treaties. This was ignored by the gov"t. all of these treaties and such were moved to ottawa. Looking at nwmp - we need to look ay their role in facilitating their role of helping maintain. Canadian order but they were also implicated in the marginalization of aboriginal and indig peoples. They were suppressing their customs which lead to things like residential schools was destructive. Today we see armed standoffs in dispute of lands, experiences of residential schools, the treatment of aboriginal and indig in the cjs, overrepresentation in the cjs indg women are seen as treated so terribly. They are one of the most marginalized pop in the nation. They are discriminated against more, more likely to be pursued against, more likely to be sentence more harshly.
