PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Body Politic, Cultural Appropriation
12 Oct 2016
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Two purposes for this unit (the past is now): to show the ways in which the past affects the present, to serve as evidence in our trial of liberalism. The treatment of first nations since confederation (1867) The canadians government"s earliest plans were that of assimilation (to assimilate first. Nations into the canadian body politic: an increasing number of colonists were coming to canada; we needed first. However, the first nations people had not accepted the social contract and had not accepted the state; we need them to accept the social contract to get them into the system. There were two main tactics the government used to achieve this end they attempted to quash all fn culture, and they used legal processes to legislate fn identity. We"re going to discuss these two topics with an eye towards answering the question to what extent are the people of the day morally responsible for the actions of the people of yesterday? .
