NO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Art, Smallpox, Tom Thomson
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Colonization: to settle among and establish control over indigenous peoples of an area or the policy/practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically. How it operated depends on the nature of the relationship between europeans and indigenous peoples. First nations believed they existed in north america from the beginning of time. Adaptation and diversity is quite obvious (e. g. 60 languages within 52 nations in canada alone) In the north, there were resources ripe and ready for economic exploitation. Accumulation of material wealth was key to settler/indigenous relations (although it varied depending on actions of indigenous groups) Explorations (* not discoveries) by john cabot, jacques cartier, martin frobisher, henry. Consequences = british north america act of 1867 assigned jurisdiction over indians and their land for the federal government (essentially the nation decides who is indian) & residential schools.
