SOCY 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Indian Removal Act, Settler Colonialism, Child Abduction

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 235
• Professor: Matsinuga

Document Summary

Week 8, lecture 13 settler colonialism and settler. Our focus: british-descended settler colonies - canada, us, new zealand, A process of territorial domination whereby settlers claim land and become the majority - reducing native populations to minority (crosby and monaghan) About the acquisition of territory (wolfe) settler governments seek to settle land and establish a new state and society (crosby and monaghan) A structure, not an event (wolfe) - it has not ended. When we consider the impact on indigenous people now, the complaints will be addressed by the trudeau government. But regime change does not change the situation of indigenous people. Settlers must eliminate indigenous peoples from the land in order to establish territorial presence (wolfe) and to obtain and maintain domination over that territory. Studying settler colonialism involves analysis of logic of elimination in historical and present day contexts.