SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chain Migration, Indian Act
9 Jan 2016
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Early european settlers to canada (with a focus on british and. French settlers in the 19th and early 20th century) Indigenous groups, both before and after contact with european settlers and colonization. Early british and french settlers had families that were nuclear and patriarchal and involved monogamous marriage. This contrasts many of the indigenous groups of canada where privatized nuclear households did not exist. Early european settlers and missionaries were highly critical of the family structure, living arrangements, and gender relations of indigenous groups. The huron did not live in privatized nuclear households. Instead, extended families lived in longhouses, which were communal homes divided into different areas. The colonization of indigenous groups in canada, and elsewhere. Had many negative and long-lasting implications (reserve system, around the world. In the early years the english and the french made up most of the early settlers.
