UNI101Y1 Chapter Notes -Two-Spirit, Concubinage, Indian Act
5 Jan 2014
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When europeans came to canada, they wanted to institute a system of christian morality, which meant eradicating the women who acted like men or men who acted like women in aboriginal society (52) Some native tribes promoted some forms of homosexual concubinage (53) The gender-crossing berdache is not necessarily equivalent to the contemporary homosexual, since western society divides people into categories due to their sexual orientation while the natives divided people by their demeanour, dress, occupation, etc. (54) The natives didn"t give primacy to sexual object choice; gender crossing was the most important component of berdaches (55) To europeans, sodomy meant you were exhibiting cross-gender behavior, but the natives didn"t link the two (56) The reserve system in 1830s upper canada was created to resocialize natives and gendered tasks were created in agriculture, where men were taught farming skills and women were taught domestic skills (57)
