HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clifford Sifton, Campbell Scott, Hidden Curriculum

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Tonight we are looking at youth: adolescence and risk-taking behaviours, family, work. In marxist theory, the proletariats are the workers: bourgeois are the bosses. Sex lives of native peoples were savage . Heathen-friskiness": european fur traders wrote this in their journals. Europeans saw natives as savage, didn"t understand their culture: noticed things such as cross dressers, polygamy. Europeans had a sense of cultural superiority over native people: thought the best thing for native americans was to convert them to christianity and save their souls. Nudity was considered sinful to european christians. First nation"s family shaped by economy and colonial relations. Parenthood serving the needs of the state. Monogamous marriage was imposed on native americans by european settlers. The schools these children would be placed in would be residential or boarding schools, not day school: it was thought that the lessons learned during the day would be erased when the child went home to their family.

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