ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Indian Act

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

Document Summary

Indigenous people call the setlers, the visitors that never let . Whole industry and infrastructure that depends on that land, has evolved, though the indigenous sill claim that it is there though it is too late . Naives want a say in how things are done to the land want a piece of the land which they feel they are geing. In reality they do have claims to part of the land, but oten overlooked. Revealing who they truly are, vulnerability to those who may be ignorant. European concept that land is useless and of no value unless you do something with it. It is inferile unless you extract the resources. Naives: requires sustainability, level of enjoyment that will beneit in the long run. Under indian act, could not obtain previous land.