ID120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eurocentrism, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation
Document Summary
In trudeau"s election speech he mentioned everyone but indigenous people. He originally said his most important relationship was with the indigenous people. Indigenous people only control 0. 2% of land 93 promise by pm. Indigenous lands and resources are used to subsidize the wealth and prosperity of. Osap and funding university comes from royalties and taxes. Harper established the trc after apologizing for the residential schools. Had 94 recommendations (land is not mentioned) Focused on idgienous suffering a residential schools. Needs to focus on why residential school the connection between residential schools and land is strong (to break their connection with the land - cultural genicide) To get the resources the intimate connection needs to be broken. There"s been resilience from the start and to break it you need to take the children. Land is the root of conflicts (its central for conversations)
