DEVS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Settler Colonialism, Devs, Main Source
22 Jan 2018
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Exploitative colonialism: wanting to extract large amounts of resources as cheaply as possible. Indigenous peoples were basically worked to their death, the enslaved people who were taken form west africa became the main source of colonial labour: settler colonialism: setting into someone else"s land to take over. Europeans conceptions about land and improvement were shaped by widely circulating imagery and the idea that indigenous peoples were savages and. Untameable objects, which made them appear as animals more than human beings. Treaties: formalized records of negotiation between parties, one of the most important treaties was the royal proclamation of 1763: It recognized the rights and lands of indigenous groups and established the system of surrendering those rights by treaty. The indigenous peoples were motivated to enter the treaty because of the rapidly depleting food sources, the first nations saw the treaty as a way to ensure future existence. In exchange for their land they would receive some form of social assistance.
