SOCIOL 2E06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Campbell Scott, Indian Act, Body Politic
30 Mar 2016
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Sociology 2e06 race and ethnic group relations. Topic 10 race and ethnicity and institutions. Chapter twenty-one: resistance and renewal: first nations and aboriginal. The words aboriginal, indigenous, first nations, native and indian are used different places and by different people to refer to themselves or others as the descendants of the original inhabitants of these lands. Aboriginal term which means from the original people. Indigenous occurring naturally in a particular place. First nations (3 things) 1: primacy of place, 2: a political entity with structures of governance, 3: through its plural form, a multiplicity of peoples and cultures forming these political entities. Native indicates that people are born in that place. Indian refers to people who are defined and governed by a set of federal laws called the indian act. Despite efforts which colonizers have made over time and continue to make to obliterate the collective memories and the current presence of aboriginal people, they are not disappearing.
