NS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Historical Trauma, Body Politic
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Designed to remove aboriginal children from their culture to ensure that aboriginal students would not return to their old environment and habits. The problem was seen as an indian problem . Continue until there is not a single indian in. Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no indian question, and no. Indian department, that is the whole object of this bill . Don"t move people effectively from one culture to another. Stuck between what has been wiped out and the white man"s way. He is not a white man and he is not an indian. Historical trauma- the sense of injury that captured the long term nature of aboriginal peoples experience over several generations. Trauma- an extremely, important event against a person"s body or self concept. It is an injury that does serious harm and challenges a person"s self healing ability unless measures are taken to counteract the injury.