POLS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Settler Colonialism, Numbered Treaties, Indigenous Rights

• School: U of S
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 205
• Professor: Charles Smith

Document Summary

The fur trade: benefits, tensions and power: trade among indigenous peoples pre-contact was occasionally marked by conflict. European contact intensified that conflict: eastern and central nations had longer entrenched relations than western societies. In early stages, those alliances proved powerful and more lasting. Indigenous nations not passive victims of fur trade, but active participants. Many indigenous peoples do not see the royal proclamation as entirely negative. Many see rp as protecting their legal rights. Rp recognizes the existence of indigenous peoples rights and establishing legal procedures for the surrender of land. End of the fur trade brings economic hardship for indigenous communities. British governance structures had severely disrupted traditional ways of indigenous life. Many indigenous communities resist: ottawa chief pontiac (1720-1769, shawnee chief tecumseh (1768-1813, metis leader louis riel (1884-1885) Confederation entrenches broader policies of settler colonialism, especially in the west. Numbered treaties focus on entrenching canadian authority over vast territories in the west.