ARTH 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pointillism, Supreme Court Of Canada, Speech Balloon
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The m tis, reservations, relocations, and the politics of belonging. In the lawrence readi(cid:374)g, she talks a(cid:271)out ho(cid:449) the go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t"s pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e of regulati(cid:374)g nati(cid:448)e identity through status has been internalized to seem natural, when it is in fact an imposed construct. Furthermore, the term indian generalizes massively diverse populations, and was also imposed on an area which, pre contact, had no similar generalizing term. In cheryl l"hirondelle"s piece, treatycardnet. art, she created a website which allowed participants to create their own treaty card in a parody form of the treaty cards given to first. In her description, she points to the ability of the card to track and regulate first. In david garneau"s pie(cid:272)e, cross (ad)dressing, stereotypically depictions of a cowboy and an. I(cid:374)dia(cid:374) stare at ea(cid:272)h other (cid:449)ith the shared thought (cid:271)u(cid:271)(cid:271)le: (cid:862)m tis? (cid:863) Highlights the ambiguous, split identity of the m tis as descendants of both colonizers (the cowboy) and colonized (the indian)