INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gradual Civilization Act, Facial Expression, Indian Act

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Timeline: gradual civilization act of canada, indian act, etc. all working together towards aggressive assimilation, honourable legislative assembly, 1847. Want to condition children to grow up looking towards the white race as something they aspire to. Powers for imitation are great they"re still lesser people, and they"ll never be equal, but they can try and have the ability to imitate whiteness. Pastedechouan: 1620, when he was young, was taken to france by a missionary family that went to his community (tadoussac) in the 17th century. Anglican church to help make money for the church. The gradual civilization act: passed into law in 1857, enfranchising indians as canadians, status indians would lose their indian status and become enfranchised as canadians, men would marry white women to bleed out the indian. The davin report: 1879, indian day schools are a failure , the chief thing to attend to was to separate the children from parents .