SOCI 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indian Act, Targeted Killing, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta
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Genocide: a range of violent activities to annihilate despised groups. Indirect form of killing (starving off source of income and survival so they can no longer survive on their own: psychological abuse and/or physical discomfort, transfer of children, e. g. Transferring children from one racial group to another (residential schools: prevention of births, e. g. To defend ideals, destroy threats, consolidate advantage (colonialism and building ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tages(cid:895), se(cid:272)ure e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) resour(cid:272)es (cid:894)taki(cid:374)g o(cid:448)er other (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s resour(cid:272)es to justif(cid:455) genocide: not al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)al doi(cid:374)g this (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e through good i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s, e. g. Residential schools and conversion of first nations to christianity was done u(cid:374)der the thought to (cid:862)sa(cid:448)e the(cid:373)(cid:863: examples: holocaust, mass murders of rwanda, darfur, ethnic conflicts were usually done around the interests of colonialism, e. g. Colonial rule would favour one ethnic group over another and thus cause conflict between the two groups (this was done to secure their power)
