HIST 300 Lecture 15: 11_28
30 Nov 2016
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Recognition has bcome center of fight for indg rights. Increasing conversation re: indg rights all around the world. About lack of treaties in bc--can is occupying unceded land. Indg opposition to natl gas development projects brings wider recognition. Colonialism is no longer trying to physically eradicate indg ppls so much as it is trying to eradicate them by destroying culture, sense of self, etc. Seeking to absorb indg ppls into nation-state/federal construct. Tho best to identify indg ppls as specifically as one can (by nation, The dene nation"s fight for self-determination community, etc) Indigenous definitions of recognition and the connection to land. Indg ppls hav their own defs of recognition, separate from those of the state. Indg claims for rec constitute equitable distribution of land, poli power, and econ resources, go beyond cultural recognition/how cr is framed in colonial context. The profound changes of the 1950s and 60s. Two paradigms emerge--land-based subsistence and participation in wage economy.
