INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heteropatriarchy, Lee Maracle, Interior Salish Languages
7 Feb 2018
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Look up what lee maracle is saying about the book on the internet: care about what you think but in the 3rd person. The interior salish are a collective of numerous nations. Jesuit missionaries start establish a network of mission in between 1839-1850s. The jesuits arrived on the plateau on request from the interior salish. The interior salish had already been introduced to the ideas of christianity. The jesuits arrive while the salish were being devastated by disease and war with the. Jesus becomes equated with male cultural heroes like napi: not a wealth of female figures in epistemology. The plateau peoples linked mary with their own view of gender constructs. The image of the virgin mary continues to be used as an example of subservient womanhood, reinforcing the european heteropatriarchy. Explosion of missionary work in the arctic motivate by anglican-catholic competition. Shift into chesterfield inlet in 1912 by catholics in response to anglicans.
