INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: First Nations, Wampum

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

Hodul"eh un (school) : pre government indigenous education and residential schools. Indigenous education early indian schools church and state res schools. 3 dif communities come together and get a renewed sense of nationhood split between systems internal factions canadian gov funds band councils. education is the receiving of knowledge or the state of knowing or understanding of what is known. Nicholas davin: moving kids into residential schools, schools funded by government, facilitated the assimilation of indg people, getting everyone in one place for assimilation, non-indg education. Treaty in treaty they orally promised that there is not spirituality or institution. Girls taught household skills boys were taught agriculture and workforce. Metis and first nations were to be put in residential schools. Metis viewed as a dangerous class (why?) Metis not included in treaties, therefore school not funded provincially first nations were under fed gov responsibility.