SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chastity, Sixties Scoop, Narratology

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Annie Bunting

Document Summary

Trc, residential schools, ongoing colonialism: similar across past decades : missing and murdered indigenous women, we have no history of colonialism , official narrative v. actual experiences. Colonialism: the conquest of other people"s lands and goods, the settlement of one group of people in a new location, entire population attempting to erase an existing population and become the population. Indian act determines who qualifies as an indian : touches every aspect of indigenous life as individuals, families, communities, and nations, mclvor v. canada 0 gendered colonial violence (palmater, statutory banishment . Multigenerational legacy of colonialism: residential schools close, sixties scoop: many indigenous children taken from families and permanently adopted out into non-indigenous families, children and grandchildren- trauma and loss is inherited. There were and continue to be indigenous governments with lawmaking powers and with provisions to enforce those laws. There were and are indigenous constitutions that are the supreme law of laws for some.