ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Infant Mortality, Haida Gwaii, Kitchen Stove
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The candle in my room queen charlote islands (112) We kept the live one ill it died they expected the last tripple to die which suggests a high infant mortality rate. Keeping two dead ones alive is against tribal burial pracices which shows departure from classic indian pracices. Qci shows that the indian populaion is dying of and it is inevitable; the only way they are seen is through pictures of them. The only ime we interact with tribal culture is ater it"s death. If they have lived and they would have rocked the queen charlote island . Rocked suggests futurity and possibiliies, it also suggests rebirth through revoluion/leadership/poliical acion (double meaning) Rocking is an act of upheaval to take back their land. One of the irst direct references to the dangers of sending people to residenial schools (industrial boarding school) References stages of development the father they are from their naive culture the further they ascend the racial hierarchy.