WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lee Maracle, Idle No More, Settler Colonialism
4 Dec 2013
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Heteropatriarchy: a term which recognizes that the system of patriarchy is dominated by heterosexual values and norms. Colonialism: the implanting of settlements on distant territory. Settler colonialism: when people from the colonizing countries become the population, when settler population becomes strong enough they overtake the indigenous population (canada, australia) Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Genocide had to happen for settler colonialism to be successful, think about the eraser of people: how genocide happened cultural eraser of people and physical eraser of people. Cultural genocide through residential school; children taken from their families, not allowed to speak their language, sexual and physical abuse. Physical genocide; lots of sickness was spread, over 90% of aboriginal population in canada was wiped out through disease, illness, and violence. Residential schools, cultural genocide: when these children went home for the summer they had nothing in common with their family.
