PHIL 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Noble Savage, Usufruct, Proportional Representation

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Indian act (1878) un-indian the indian": strip aboriginals of their status, if women aren"t abo, riginal, neither would their children be, canadian government recognizes this as cultural genocide". Indian affairs manages indians as though they were wildlife. In schools/universities, police force, political figures, judiciary proceedings, businesses: they are cut off from this by geographical reasons, economical reasons, communicational reasons etc, these reasons have been engineered by the people who wanted to get rid of them. Their cultural is stuck in a stage of infancy (in terms of cities, technology, etc: it was thought that god created different races separately and each had a different level of intelligence. It is awarded by the crown which means that it can be taken away if desired: treaty must be constitutionally and legally put in place, mutual recognition and equal legitimacy for native peoples regarding views, laws, etc.

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