CRI364H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grain Elevator, Protestantism, Sun Dance
20 Jun 2020
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Film notes the pass system: federal govt claims they are equal and will share land, meanwhile they"re developing oppressive piece to strip them of their land and develop them into the mainstream. Indians were lazy and therefore he must have short rations? : purpose of visit and duration written on the pass, couldn"t sell anything without a pass, need permission from indian agent, no way to make money, grain elevator. Indian and white people: white people business dealt with first, and if there"s time then first nation dealt with. Intention was to create something new that looked like the old place: did not include indigenous people in the narrative, out of sight and out of mind, racial formation of us and them. Indigenous people as culturally backward: they were superior and highly developed. If you didn"t go to school, your parents went to jail: parents not allowed to take kids out of school without permission.
