[INDIGST 1A03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (58 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Missing indigenous women and girls in canada. Premier wynne has agreed to provide funding to the mohawk institute. Uneducated, alcoholics, addicts, princess/skwa, head dresses, money hungry, free education, don"t pay taxes, living on welfare, unorganized, homeless. Indigenous peoples are viewed as illiterate because of their system of knowledge. A lot of complexities are involved in remembering and accurately teaching through oral tradition. Just because it isn"t written down does not mean that it is not sophisticated. If a chief needs to be corrected, they will be by many witnesses within the longhouse. Misconceptions of the oral tradition stem from western games and ideas such as. Becomes less and less relevant the more the story is told. Stories are always viewed as relevant in the present as well as in the future, view time as cyclical as opposed to the western linear view. Speaks to who you are as an indigenous person.