SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Idle No More, Ovide Mercredi, Elijah Harper

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

We took away their country and their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decay among them, and it was for this and against this that they made war. That age structure of the aboriginal population is much younger the the rest of the canadian population. There is great variation in geographic distribution across aboriginal groups. Aboriginal people accounted for 4. 3% of the total population of canada enumerated in the 2011 nhs, up from the 3. 8% in 2006. The size f the aboriginal population was 1,400,685 in 2011. Assimilation overriding goal of the 18th & 19th centuries. Accommodation (idle no more) current stage. Cooperation provided secure medications to the floundering colonies. Dispersal numerous nations were moved and dispersed. Dejection high suicide rates, loss of language, culture of poverty. Rebirth more confident and organized; protests against injustices. Economic reserves are on non-farmable lands. Religious potlatch, sundance, and ghost dance were all banned.