HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Act, Millenarianism, Potlatch
Document Summary
The politics of immigration and indigenous affairs in mid-twentieth-century. Readings: bohaker and iacovetta describe several dept of citizenship and. Immigration programs, and by extension dci personnel, from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s as well intentioned but intrusive (p. 439) Idea was to make indigenous women good homemakers . This promotes the white middle class and gender ideologies. The assumption that the this is the only right way of life, anything that. Extending the suburban outlook deviates from this ideal of a homemaker is deviant and wrong. You have to look and behave appropriately and you must behave this way so that the social workers (the women working in social work emphasized the. Good homemaker) felt that you were eligible for resources. Indigenous people: inherently inferior to white middle class and therefore used as a explanation for the need to change their lifestyle and also this lifestyle was used to explain the indigenous inferiority.
