EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gradual Civilization Act, Canadian Indian Residential School System, Confederation Poets
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Newfoundland says we are with britain, theydont have their own identity. The last of the indian treaties (1906) pg 437: since there are so many indian colonies, we must negotiate treaties to include all of them, the treaties once signed will last forever and ever. It is set in stone cannot be changed. The onondaga madonna in relation to the last of the indian treaties. She does not wear proper mohawk attire, she just collects some of the things that racial stereotypes that people have, what an indigenous people are supposed to look like. Used this to capture her audience"s attention and articulate what this colonialism was doing to the indigenous people. Highlights how obsurd the divisions are between europeans and indigenous people on the other hand she is able to speak for both sides. Articulating female indigenous female experience that would have never been given a voice otherwise.
