SOCI 1121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Plaintext, Potlatch
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No one has put aboriginal people in the parliament. We need to fix everything before we can give full self governments, such as education, homelessness, starvation (indigenous act) Would they ever be able to find one person to govern over every aboriginal. Alan mceachern this land is not your land. the crown can do whatever it dam well pleases. The postponing of this trial was strategic. Mceachern assessed the aboriginal people based off europeans. They don"t have the wheel aboriginal people used canoes. They don"t have a written language effective passing of language throughout the potlatch, orally. Alan never let anthropologists, only historians and linguists. Never let any oral evidence from aboriginal people if it"s not written down, it"s not evidence . The supreme court of canada also sent out a very clear message that the aboriginal people are here to stay. Kneel and bop at ubc no longer bc of the aboriginal students!