DEVS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnohistory, Wampum, Brian Mulroney
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Theoretical framework indigenous diversity of turtle island language is the keystone of culture. Canadian government has created a one size fits all" identity for aboriginals. Framework needs to recognize diversity as the rule among aboriginal peoples as a reality. Various environments of aboriginal people is a determinate in the formation of culture and the ways in which their identity is formed. Indigenous people tend to settle in areas of watershed: food security, ease of transportation, natural highland boundaries. Use history as a default framework to hang information. Cyclic events of humans is downplayed in western history. Cyclic dialectic shifts away from this: helps us escape the idea of history being written by the conqueror. Two distinct paradigms of history that overlaps, can begin to understand aboriginal studies: conceptual framework is never complete, will create more context to develop a theory in. Inquiry and appointed by cabinet under the inquiries act.