ID120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pierre Trudeau, Simulacrum, Indian Register
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There are 3 types of indians: dead indians, live indians, and legal indians. Dead indians stereotypes or clich s that north america has conjured up out of experience and out of its collective imagination and fears. Bits of cultural debris authentic and constructed are (cid:862)sig(cid:374)ifiers(cid:863) (sig(cid:374)s that (cid:272)reate a (cid:862)si(cid:373)ula(cid:272)ru(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:374)e(cid:448)er e(cid:454)isted (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the o(cid:374)l(cid:455) truth of the thi(cid:374)g is the lie itself) The demise of indians was seen as a tenet of natural law. All native people living in north america today are live indians. Church of jesus of latter-day saints home placement project indians were encouraged to send their children to white homes to be raised with white families. North americans believe that live indians living today cannot be genuine indians. Legal indians recognized as being indians by the canadian and u. s. governments. Approximately 40% of live indians in north america are legal indians.
