HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Doris Anderson, Student Activism
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Minimum 3,000 children died in res schools---but after 1917 deaths were not reported. Church and state: a mutually beneficial relationship. Government sponsored removal of indigenous children (1961-1980s) Go from 1% to 34% of children in care--pop is <10% Ideas of proper care v much based off typical eur-can ideas. Divorced laws liberalized, common law marriages b/come popular, blended families. New cultural wave originated w middle class uni students, but soon spread. Generational gap btwn baby boomers and their parents. Women still stigmatized for premarital sex, pregnancy. Termination of the indian act, indian status, and indian affairs. Big cause of govt mistrust for both indg/non-indg ppls. Harold cardinal (the unjust society and the red paper) The new left--mostly white student movement, fighting for participatory democ, uni issues, civ rights, end to vietnam war. Reasons for the emergence of the counterculture. Students occupy computer lab after admin doesn"t acknowledge racism in a bio class from prof.