ANTH 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Potlatch, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation
9 Feb 2017
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Floyd westerman song just another holy man", also wrote here comes the anthros": from south dakota, was in the film dances with wolves. Topic of this week: policy issues regarding aboriginal people in canada. Based on existing legislation i. e, canadian constitution and charter of rights and freedoms. Based on stipulations of the indian act. Some aboriginal people went along with it and others resisted. In actuality it helped those who were less advantaged. Those who continued this practice were put in jail: act passed in 1927 that stopped aboriginal people them from forming any political organization beyond their local band. People coming into the country carry different cultural traditional and they should be allowed to express them. The canadian government under treadu supported that aboriginal people had cultures of value which should be support and not supressed: thus the anti-potlach law, and the anti-dance laws were eliminated.
