WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Quechan, Internalized Oppression, Infor
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Lecture 2 (j a n 5, 2017): his tory. Not taking the time to deconstruct social norms. Take this image of canada and look at what it has developed into. Gender violence; students disclosing their experiences with people they knew/know, a story is significant because it leads to analysis of what steps need to be taken to make the problem better. Advantages have come from women who have fought for rights for women, advocating changes for women in canada. Slavery was practiced in this country, and stole the land of indigenous people, put them in residential schools, they felt worthless because their lifestyle was taken away from them (last residential school closed in the late 1990s) Ruling of the court was strict and the government has denied the rights for indigenous people in this country (access to the education system, healthcare, access to food and shelter, etc) Government has done nothing to help indigenous people feel included in this society.
