FEM 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Squaw, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom, Cultural Assimilation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2107
• Professor: Christabelle Sethna

Document Summary

White settler colonialism: violence against indigenous people. Indigenous groups are separated and eventually reintegrated = the principle of assimilation: cultural assimilation - process by which a person or a groups language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Sexual violence is a fundamental technology of the colonial process. Canada: canada was actually a country that was brutally colonized and this is something which is ignored (discovery myth, the indian act of 1876. Constitution act: assigned to parliament legislative jurisdiction over "indians and lands reserved for the. Indian status was seen as transitional: 1840s - compulsory education for aboriginal children in residential schools;, developed to destroy aboriginal traditions, 1960s-70s child welfare, women sterilization was forced in alberta in 1928 and in bc 1933. Misinterpretations of indigenous women: objects of conquest, exploited for labour and sex, missionarys concerned about the problem of women"s sexual freedom-impure and uncivilized.