Freedom & Equality in GSWS1024-3

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and concepts related to freedom, equality, and their interpretations in Indigenous contexts based on the GSWS1024-3 lecture notes.

Solidarity

A sense of unity and mutual support among individuals, emphasized in discussions about homelessness and societal issues.

Relationality

The concept that individuals are interconnected and their identities and experiences are shaped through relationships with others and with nature.

Indigenous Knowledge

Understandings and concepts developed by Indigenous peoples, often emphasizing community, equality, and sustainability.

Huron Wendat

An Indigenous group whose perspectives on freedom and equality highlight communal decision-making and mutual aid.

Enlightenment

An intellectual movement in Europe that emphasized reason, individualism, and skepticism of authority, often bringing about ideas of freedom and equality.

Freedom as practiced by Huron Wendat

The ability to move, disobey commands, and participate in community organization without compulsion.

Equality in Huron Wendat societies

The belief that all individuals are equal in worth despite differences in wealth, with mutual aid ensuring individual freedom.

Backlash against Indigenous ideas

Response by European thinkers suggesting that Indigenous ideas of equality require strict leadership to enforce.

Property Rights

Legal rights to possess property, recognized as crucial for freedom but also critiqued for leading to inequality and encroachment by the state.

Critique of Western ideas

Indigenous intellectuals challenged European notions of hierarchy and competition, promoting concepts of equality and shared humanity.