POL 128 Study Guide - Final Guide: Elijah Harper, Canadian Indian Residential School System, Canadian Confederation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Laurinda Hartt- Fournier

Document Summary

In the process of decolonization, we see the people who were ethnographiable are now writing the history, tells the history of canada through the point of view of elijah harper and first nations. Historifiable people: are the ones that used to be the ones in ethnographiable. Ethnographiable people are now writing the history It will be the first nations (elijah: aboriginals, kanehsthahwa: mohawks) Historifiable: traditionally, it was white, anglo-saxophone, heterosexual male. If you didn"t fit in this category you were considered an other". But with elijah we get the point that they are the ones who are writing history. History of canada from the aboriginal point of view (done with humour, style, and flare) In elijah the historifiable voice is the aboriginal people of canada. When white people are presented they are considered strange, all the things in the media first. Nations people have been portrayed as when the white man was making the films.