EAS 1101 Chapter 3: EAS1101 reading response 3

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Aboriginal Studies
• Course: EAS 1101
• Professor: Daniel Ruck

Document Summary

Thomas king - the inconvenient indian: a curious account of native people in. Chapter 9 as long as the grass is green. They want gold and power, in one word, the land. All the removals, terminations, relocations were about relieving indians of their land base, for white people to claim for themselves. In fact, king believes that land is the fundamental issue for aboriginal people, even more than assimilation, education, language or culture. Personal response: some compelling issues king focuses on which peeked my interest are at creating a possible treaty day since treaties have been successful in getting. Indians off their land but notes that the problem is less the treaties themselves than the honoring of them. Canada has claimed artic land as canadian on the backs of native peoples. King provides us with 6 eye-opening stories illustrating the question of land between natives and whites : the kinzua dam in allegheny national forest, in 1717.