EN280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Genocide, Killer Whale, Winnowing
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Dave hind lecture: rcw324 12:00-1:00pm on thursday, jan. Final report of the indian residential school truth and. First nations chiefs of ontario meeting- right now. Suicide rate of fist nations youth in northern ontario 50 more than in rest of canada. First nations chiefs: say they are asking questions, thinking deeply. Don"t separate present and past, the present flowers out of the past, rooted in it. Cultural genocide: the destruction of those structure and practices that allow the group to continue as a group. The establishment and operation of residential school were a central element to this policy, which can best be described as. Assimilating: re-educate them to sever them from all they had before, language, culture, family, etc. States that engage in cultural genocide set out to destroy the political and social institutions of the targeted group. Lands are seized, and political and social institutions are forcibly transferred and their movements is restricted.
