Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture 5: LEC5 NOTES

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

Document Summary

Targeting of children parents had to let children be taken away: the 60s scoop a lot of indigenous kids were taken from their families and were adopted into non-indigenous families, residential schools. To smudge: a ceremony for purifying or cleansing the soul of negative thoughts of a person or place. Background issues to know about: before the europeans, tremendous diversity across canada, egalitarian cultural customs and complex political traditions and relationships across nations. The colonial project: treaties, laws restricting movement, hunting, marriage, religious ceremonies, and language, voting, residential schools, the 60s scoop , colonization the expansion of empire. Indigenous peoples really helped colonizers survive, occurred globally. Contemporary events: post-colonial experiences (c. late 1960s) among members of the 640 nations in canada vary tremendously, historical and present-day linkages. There are more indigenous kids now than in the 1960s: young kids taken from their families, not always for valid reasons, still going on today.