GGR124H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
31 Jan 2018
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A look at residential schools: their mission was to eradicate the indigenous from a child. "settler colonial" -> colonial people come to a land and settle and replace the indigenous population. Urbanism and settler colonialism: freeman argues that "social, political, and cultural processes of urban development have themselves constituted a specific modality of colonialism (believes there is no history in toronto. "terra nullius" (easier to imagine the land was empty before we settled it: he also argues the building of canadian cities relied on the displacement and dispossession of aboriginal people. Dispossession: process by which settlers came to acquire land historically held by indigenous people. *first story: app that allows you to discover the indigenous history of our city. Aspire to keep the history alive, protesting against the "replacement". Interesting project: ogimaa mikana: reclaiming/renaming: putting the original street names back on streets that have been displaced. Spadina has been replaced on a few signs as its original name, ishpadina.
