ANTH 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Northern Ontario, Potlatch
10 Mar 2014
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General guidelines for action from where?-existing legislation i. e, Canadian constitution and charter of rights and freedoms -indian act -platforms of political. Parties- in canada we have had 3 political parties, conservatives serve economic process, Assimilationist policy- actions of assimilation where taken against the natives, policies to make natives go to residential schools. Policy of multi- culturalism- kind of mask over discrimination in canada. Solving the indian problem , (or solving the white problem?) Made potlatch illegal, tried to make natives want to give up status. Mercury pollution, i. e. , white dog and grassy narrows in northern ontario near kenora- mercury enter food chain, fish get contaminated with mercury pollution, then humans eat the fish, getting the mercury into their system. No clean up by the canadian government was issued. The natives where told to stop eating the fish, which they depended on to eat with a low cost.
