HISTORY 3W03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paternalism, Cross-Dressing, Eurocentrism
12 Dec 2020
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Lecture: indigenous women and the colonial project i. Naming and terminology: various terms are used when referring to indigenous peoples, the way indigenous peoples have been addressed in scholarship has changed over time and depending on the place. In the u. s. indian, american indian, native american. In canada indian (legislation or older sources), first nations, indigenous peoples, Aboriginal peoples: names scholars are using to describe indigenous peoples are increasingly being replaced by endonyms (names that indigenous peoples have given themselves, e. g. Pre-contact: must look at what indigenous societies looked like before europeans arrived in north. America: each first nation has a distinct history and unique cultural traditions. Impossible to generalize about kinds of societal structures and power relations among. Interpreting indigenous societies: once believed that indigenous societies (prior to european arrival) were primitive and unsophisticated, eurocentric bias influenced how many early explorers, missionaries, settlers encountered.
