SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Matrilocal Residence, Indian Act, Sixties Scoop
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Violence in aboriginal families: pre colonial aboriginal families. They did not grow food only forged for it. Needed to be able to move on and move quickly. Material goods were a liability that prohibited survival. Everyone in the community related either through blood or legal ties. These communities were ordered based on various factors. Women had tremendous social political and legal power through their economic power in which these things stem. Women also shared power with the men. Matrili(cid:374)eal (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t you (cid:449)ere al(cid:449)ays k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as part of your (cid:373)other"s fa(cid:373)ily. Matrilocal means when the bride and groom got married they never married someone from their own community; married someone from neighbour community. When they got married the community always sided with the bride. Elders were highly respected and seen as central to the survival of the community: aboriginal families after conquest. Always males from europe, they intended to do business and go home.
