INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Signify, Indigenous Rights, Lake Superior

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000Y
• Professor: Shpuniarsky Heather

Document Summary

1st era initial contact and establishment of colonies. 2nd era nation building by colonizing powers and the colonies, emerging nation states. 3rd era on going colonization and neo colonization. Based on the inside outside model: permanent centre (europeans) + permanent periphery (natives); europeans the source of all ideas and pass them down to the natives, but sometimes they took ideas from the natives (ex. Based on the idea that most human communities are uninventive with the expectation of the view that only a few are the periphery can only receive inventive ideas from the centre. Norse in mi"maki 1001-1015, henry sinclair in 1390"s and many fishermen from. Portugal, england etc. (had a relationship with the local natives for trade reasons and then left) Christopher columbus (really don"t know much about him) searched for a westward route to india. Finds what is now the bahamas and the taino people.