CRI370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canda, Surname, Eviction
10 Apr 2018
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Beginning ideas: coping takes energy, having guard up, feeling stuff coming at you, children and consent. Kewku film: how this is described as a visual poem, how there are multiple stories, beyond victimization story of survival, knowledge, coming to re-know something taken away. Indigenous people were wanted to disappear as culturally, legally distinct. In terms of fitting in, never that once distinction erased there would be equality. Indigenous communities were hard hit by residential schools: how concepts of childhood are very much central to colonial projects in canada, notion of child dispersive way (in lang) and materially, children, have agency, effect change in their surrounds. Language of care and protection and provision have been used in malicious way (cid:862)childhood(cid:863) as colo(cid:374)ial dis(cid:272)ourse. Indigenous people never surrended right to self-determine: for the first time, canada recofnized state obligation and treaty right to give edu, but how did canada expose these residential schools.
