CANS 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thomas, Quickness, Lebret
21 Nov 2015
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Buff=main source of food for indg people. Send kids to school to prevent from starving. Schools not to educate--to break cultural identity. Goal to adopt habits of white men . Website: where are the children, curated by jeff thomas--indg artist. Pic: child, thomas moore, as he arrived after tuition aka before/after. Talking abt impact/consequence allows us to talk abt present/future, learn from past. Safe/culturally approp. setting to discuss res. schools. Some say genocide is too harsh, some too weak, some say term itself is distracting from reconciliation. Res school survivors--implies some did not survive. Res schools first operated by govt, then churches to kill the indian in the child . Actually kill the child in the indian . Last school closed 1996, 100,000+ children passed thru. Pic: 10,000s buffalo skulls piled up, shows extinction of buffalo--a policy necessary to. Clothes show respect, kindness/love, they are hand sewn. Photo meant to represent an undesirable, uncivilized/dangerous.
