POLS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indian Act, John Cabot

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 212
• Professor: Jessica Moreilli

Document Summary

March 2 nd , 2016: first naions poliics. Indian: seen as a derogatory term and should not be used unless referring to the indian act . On reserve/of reserve: reserves are areas of federal crown land reserved for the use of first naions people. Less than high school educaion: aboriginal-33, non aboriginal-13% Median income (ages 25-54: aboriginal-,000, non aboriginal-,000. Life expectancy for inuit: men 64, women 73. Suggested soluion to the problems with first naions communiies. 22 self-gov"t agreements signed with eighteen comprehensive land claim agreements. Colonialism as: dispossession, exploitaion, erasure: the removal of wriing, recorded material, or data/ the removal of all traces of something, coninuous.