HIST261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Settler Colonialism, Terra Nullius
1 Oct 2018
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Key questions: what are strengths and limitations of history as told through the nation-state, what was the significance of the doctrine of discovery and of the royal proclamation of. Disadvantages: can limit the range of perspectives we can bear on the past, or questions we ask of the past, prevailing patterns of inequality, ex. History of indigenous peoples: hard to understand how cana-da 150 is in fact colonialism 150, we forget about the bad things that has happened over the past 150 years. Truth and reconciliation commission of canada (often called trc) as a challenge to how national history is structured. Investigation into residential school system that targeted indigenous children, removed. I(cid:374)dige(cid:374)ous (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) fro(cid:373) their pare(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities that did(cid:374)"t allo(cid:449) the(cid:373) to ha(cid:448)e basic necessities. Indigenous people: people of long settlement and connection to specific lands, term frequently used in international contexts, and increasingly in common usage, not as common in canada.
