LY100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Indian Act, Discovery Doctrine, Donald Marshall, Jr.
10 Nov 2015
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*read and brief the donald marshall jr. case for next week. Treaty land claim: promised 6 miles on either side of the grand river. Many live on reserves government allotted. Residential schools: children were taken from their homes and set up in schools where they were forced to speak english, no contact with their families and culture, there was a lot of abuse; sexual, physical, emotional. There is an extreme overrepresentation of aboriginals in our prisons. Oppression: discovery doctrine: said that when they discovered a territory the indigenous individuals were to be overcome, whatever it took in order to obtain their land. Colonization: needed to be educated and civilized, residential schools trying to get rid of their culture, fear, confusion, embarrassment. Before first contact: the indian act (1876)
