NS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Self-Determination, Disconnection, Restorative Justice
16 Sep 2016
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Minorities reflect group of people who may share common culture, traditions, religion, language. Who seek to preserve that culture who are numerically inferior who see equality within the state. Aboriginal peoples have contemporary and or historic claims to the land, to independent governance as a people as well as claims to cultural preservation. Law, economics, education(policy, practice, values), media, history, medicine, languages etc. Directly or passively (by default) pushing assimilation of aboriginal peoples. Colonialism controls through the deliberate and systematic destruction of racial, political and cultural groups. Genocide is the means by which colonialism creates, sustains and extends its control to enrich itself. Consequences of colonialism including suicide, conflict with the criminal justice system, child welfare apprehensions and intrusions, violence against women and children, sexual abuse. Consequences had one thing in common- disconnection. Disconnect from spirit, language, culture, family, home etc. To absorb into the culture or more of a population or group.
