SOWK 425 Midterm: Word Definitions
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Musqueam: first contact 222/3 years ago, but 4000 years old. Used to have a population of 30,000 but reduced to . 33 of 1% population 100 people. Indian act 1876 residential schools 1831 1996 + 60s scoop/ millennium scoop poverty. The three nations that claim vancouver as their territory: Musqueam, squamish, tsleill-waututh never ceded territory. Assimilation: this is the process of dismantling and erasing indigenous society and culture, and replacing it through religious, political, and economic conversion. This is a form of psychological warfare institutionalized within the colonial state through residential schools. It should be noted that this is not true assimilation, as the goal is not to incorporate indigenous populations into colonial society, but instead to control and gain access to territory and resources, including humans. Pei, new brunswick and newfoundland had no residential schools. Only because the church didn"t reach out to work with the government.