INDIGST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anishinaabe Clan System, Canadian Indian Residential School System, Nicholas Flood Davin

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1AA3
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Intellectuals, teachers and scholars, aid in the development of youth mentally and spiritually, act as a intermediary between. Caretakers of the community, shelter and recreation, poets and pacifists avoiding harsh words (fred kelly) Protectors of the people, legal guardians and police within community, they patrol the borders of territory, have vast knowledge of medicinal plants. If there is a conflict between two people, it is part of society as a whole. Potential justice outcomes: verbal accountability (offender-victim, societal accountability, restitution (financial, labour, etc. , public shaming, withdrawal of citizenship rights, banishment (temporary or permanent) Justice paradigms- indigenous versus canadian: restorative versus retributive, rehabilitation versus incarceration, community versus adversarial, process-oriented versus transactional, section 718. 2(e) of the criminal code states that there should be consideration of the circumstances of aboriginal offenders. Indian residential school system (irs: john a. macdonald- prime minister, nicholas flood davin- politician and news paper person, macdonald asked davin to go to america to research industrial schools for.