FEM 3108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Settler Colonialism, Double Consciousness, Lake Nipigon

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3108
• Professor: Tricia Mc Guire- Adams

Document Summary

B) erasure of indigenous peoples in order to achieve a) newcomers/colonizers/settlers come to a place, claim it as their own, and do. Fem3108 indigenous feminisms and aboriginal women"s issues. Role of decolonization through arvin, tuck, and morrill (2013) decolonizing. Settler colonialism: (cid:498)is a persistent social and political formation in which whatever it takes to disappear the )ndigenous peoples that are there(cid:499) (cid:523)p. (cid:883)(cid:884)(cid:524) (cid:498))n order for the settlers to usurp the land and extract its value, )ndigenous. Peoples must be destroyed, removed, and made into ghosts(cid:499) (cid:523)p. (cid:883)(cid:884)(cid:524) (cid:498)the destruction of )ndigenous knowledge and )ndigenous identity has been a fundamental objective of colonial policies in canada(cid:499) 2 parts: a) taking the land for resources, capitalism, etc. Double consciousness: evaluating oneself with the standards not of his/her/their own making. In response to cultural genocide and assimilation are acts of reclaiming and regeneration: knowledge/stories that connect us to the land, indigenous ways of being/teachings.