SOSC 4351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Settler Colonialism, Exploitation Colonialism, Assembly Of First Nations
18 May 2016
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October 19 2015
Week 5: The Colonial Project – its impact on Aboriginal people – Royal Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples
− The notion of colonialism
− Historical: this notion came from Europe
− Different styles/forms of colonialism –important to understand because helps link together
− Resource exploitation colonialism
− Most colonialism in Africa and Asia –colonizers go to the place to get the resources back to
the home country
− In order to achieve this you need: transportation, army, infrastructure
− The colonizer uses the “aboriginals” to do all the work i.e. grow tea, make, and help with
transportation
− Important to train and teach the “aboriginals” (middle management) bring theories of
education, government, to local so they an aspire to run things in that particular manner
− This what you call resource exploitation colonialism –the colonials most of the time to not
want to live in these areas however there are expectations such Africa (where it started as
resource exploitation i.e. timber, used local indigenous habitants to get what they want)
− Settler colonialism
− Where you want to stay, ACTS towards Aboriginal peoples???
− If you are living where they want to settle, the aboriginals are considered in the way,
something must be done in order to fix
− Must find ways to deal with the indigenous people
− There was an initial plan that used law in order to achieve the goals
− Difference between resource and settler colonialism…
− Because resource exploitation requires indigenous peoples to do the work whereas settler’s
colonialism the indigenous peoples people get in the way.
− Settler’s colonialism is basically the same between Canada and Australia, same practices
and process.
− Much of how they moved/pushed out Indigenous peoples was using the law
− There were never any real Indian Wars –mostly happened under the law
− Disease played a role:
− Book: Daschuk (learning the plains) –discusses how disease influences colonialism
− Government used food in order to force the aboriginals to do as they please
READING: Stage Three: Displacement and Assimilation
− After the failure of Meech Lake Accords the Mulroney government created a royal commission
of aboriginal peoples
− The commission was set up by attempts to amend the Constitution…was not successful
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− A. Harper –did not agree because aboriginal peoples were left out
− Result: Royal Commissions –what mix of people would you like? Some indigenous peoples (1
Metis, 1 First Nations, 1 Inuit), woman or women, someone from Quebec, non-indigenous
woman, someone with first language is French)
− Change in Atlantic and central Canada
− First change: more people started coming to Canada, there was huge pressure on the
aboriginal peoples because they wanted their land
− Even though the land that was set aside for indigenous people was theirs it was taking over
by others
− Second Change: Sitting on the land = “squatting”
− Taking land and moving aboriginals people into smaller reserves
− Lost economies, were not able to hunt traditionally
− Third change: after was of 1812, were not longer thought of as allies
− Page 2 –“In retrospect…racist premises” -as Europe began to develop a colonialists agenda
had to justify to themselves, indigenous people were savages and primitive, they had this
agenda: WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE BEST, needed to be justified –they started with all
kinds of theories (i.e. brain size) to dived the world racially to prove that white people were
the best that would justify what colonialism was doing
− Came along with this: “White mans burden” civilize “savages” it’s a tough thing to do but
because we are the strongest race we must help to share our civilization (try to get the
indigenous peoples close)
− * This was taking place at a time where slavery was taking place
− Needed to create this ideology of they were doing this
− How do you run settler colonialism? P.3 –The colonial expansion
− Landless people with not much to do could be dangerous –put them on a boat and promise them
land once they got to another country (Canada for the ones they liked, Australia for those they
didn’t like (prison settlers)
− R.Capp talks about the displacement # of dim
− Displaced physically –access to their homes, forced to move
− Displaced socially –move spiritually
− Displaced culturally –move away from indigenous culture (beliefs)
− 1810-1820
− Focus was tot displace in all three ways
− P.5 change in relation from royal proclamation things moved by 1830 what happened was
that the settler government there new job was not nation to nation but to civilize aboriginal
peoples
− 1760 –powerful nations lets work together → 60 years later you guys will disappear we will
help you
− *One of the way engines of the civilizations –white institutions
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Document Summary
Week 5: the colonial project its impact on aboriginal people royal commission on aboriginal. Different styles/forms of colonialism important to understand because helps link together. Most colonialism in africa and asia colonizers go to the place to get the resources back to the home country. In order to achieve this you need: transportation, army, infrastructure. The colonizer uses the aboriginals to do all the work i. e. grow tea, make, and help with transportation. Important to train and teach the aboriginals (middle management) bring theories of education, government, to local so they an aspire to run things in that particular manner. If you are living where they want to settle, the aboriginals are considered in the way, something must be done in order to fix. Must find ways to deal with the indigenous people. There was an initial plan that used law in order to achieve the goals.
