HREQ 1700 Lecture 4: Early settlers -- Troubling Belonging
27 Jan 2018
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Lecture # 4: early settler women troubling belonging. This territory may have emerged very differently had these practices not been put in place. Their policies began to shape the possibilities and experiences of migrant communities that had found their way to this territory as well as indigenous communities. This territory we now call canada became a settler colony. Settler colonialism is a form of colonial formation whereby foreign people move into a region. An imperial power oversees the immigration of these settlers who consent, often only temporarily, to government by that authority. This colonization sometimes leads, by a variety of means, to depopulation of the previous inhabitants, and the settlers take over the land left vacant by the previous residents. The settlers are generally viewed by the colonizing authority as racially superior to the previous inhabitants, giving their social movements and political demands greater legitimacy than those of colonized peoples in the eyes of the home government.
