SMF101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aisle, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Indian Agent
29 Dec 2017
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Smf 101 topic #3: marriage, family, race relations, and the indian act. Acknowledgement territory uw is on anishinaabe territory; long to acknowledge colonization of the past. Haldeman track (1874) acres of land to honour fnmi military alliance (six nations, who lost parts of their traditional territory); acknowledgement reminds us (tiny step towards reconciliation); colonialism has shaped fnmi individuals specific to marriage and family. The university of waterloo is situated on the haldimand tract, the land promised to the six nations that includes six miles on each side of the grand river. Is complex; 16th cent explorers found; contact was uneven; first contact nation to nation contact between the two; Military, and political alliances; goal was to christianize, colonize, settle. Introduced diseases, small box to manuel disease; disease weakened communities (in terms of structures built. Treaties essential to understand relationship we are all in (early constitutional history of canada) around individuals) Some european communities includes british and french.
