EAS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oka Crisis, Malaria, Cultural Appropriation

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

Document Summary

Colonization is the historical act of a power of a state coming to a foreign territory and taking over. The first era is the period of initial contact and establishment of colonies. The second era encompasses the nation-building exercises undertaken by the colonizing powers, and in many cases the settler society replaced them. (transformation of former colonies into nation-states) The third era includes the ongoing and emergent colonialisms and neo-colonialisms of the contemporary post-colonial world. (related to indigenous peoples: works to either assimilate them into a dominant culture or keep them in a state of marginalization. *maaka and andersen, part i: colonization and indigenous peoples, p. 13. Governments are highly organized but indigenous peoples are not in the same situation. In fact, if we had been allowed to practice our own social, political structures we would maybe be in that position of state also. But those are the things that we destroyed during colonization . and nation-state building.