EAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Potlatch, Settler Colonialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Aboriginal Studies
• Course: EAS 1101
• Professor: Daniel Rück

Document Summary

Liberal narrative : problem with individual right for the citizens in indigenous people to make indigenous people as just another race. Global,transnational,comparative research on settler colonialism philip deloria : we must be careful to recognize that the dynamic, open, progressive global colonial knowledge-making that was, and continues to be ,all about the exercise of power and domination . Potlatch - wealthier people redistribution of goods in the community. Forced sterilization break down of the family structure government wanted to stop it. Systematically killed them as if they were animals. Fought a war and the colonial government and transfer the population to flinders. 12 aboriginal language in tasmania trying to reconstruct one of the languages. Settler narratives about indigenous people and history. Continuing criminalization of indigenous peoples and actions. Refusal to return stolen land,pay reparation for benefit derived from those lands.