SOC 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ten Feet Tall, Native Friendship Centre, Indigenous Peoples
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Constructing urban an indigenous as mutually exclusive category. Indigenous people have been constructed as living (and belonging) in rural and remote areas. Ideas are recursively linked to policies and state practices that have sought to disconnect indigenous peoples from the land: (cid:862)various le(cid:448)els of go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, ra(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g fro(cid:373) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) age(cid:374)ts, to depart(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, to. 11-11 the courts and houses of parliament, worked to maintain these separations of first. Nations and ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) spa(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:894)wilso(cid:374) a(cid:374)d peters (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1009), (cid:1007)99(cid:895). Patialization of (cid:862)authenticity(cid:863: (cid:862)a(cid:271)origi(cid:374)al peoples i(cid:374) (cid:272)ities still (cid:272)o(cid:374)fro(cid:374)t lo(cid:374)g-standing non-aboriginal misconceptions or stereot(cid:455)pes that (cid:862)authe(cid:374)ti(cid:272)(cid:863) a(cid:271)origi(cid:374)al peoples (cid:272)a(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:271)e fou(cid:374)d o(cid:374) reser(cid:448)es where the(cid:455) li(cid:448)e (cid:373)(cid:455)sti(cid:272)al a(cid:374)d e(cid:272)ologi(cid:272)all(cid:455) (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t li(cid:448)es i(cid:374) the u(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilized, (cid:862)(cid:374)atural(cid:863) (cid:449)orld. Marginalization and in/visibility: (cid:862)the dru(cid:374)ke(cid:374) i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) is te(cid:374) feet tall, (cid:271)ut a so(cid:271)er o(cid:374)e is i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le. No o(cid:374)e (cid:374)oti(cid:272)es all the ones they pass, that are on their way to committees, whatever.