indigenous nationalism

why do Indigenous identify with shared cultural history?

Indigenous peoples have evaded the influence of European language & culture for centuries

what has disease and depopulation done to the people?

• fishers & farmers had to become hunter gatherers, for example

• forced starvation policy was also employed on the first nations to make sure they complied

• altered lifestyle

what else happened to first nations?

• conditions forced them to sign treaties (owning vs sharing)

• reserves they were spied on to prevent them from practicing tradition

• residental schools & assimilation

• sixties’ scoop

what treaty established a nation to nation relationship?

royal proclamation of 1763

what did the royal proclamation outline for first nations?

Indigenous peoples could not surrender their territory without a treaty.

why does the royal proclamation inform supreme court decisions

• some indigenous did not sign treaties

• established nation to nation relationship

why did indigenous have a lack of self-determination?

The Indian Act prevented First Nations from being able to vote without renouncing their Indian status

• they could not influence their future without losing their identity

why did they have zero self determination regardless of them getting tbeir right to vote?

indigenous issues were overshadowed by other Canadians’

why can’t the indigenous influence the government?

• rep by pop, first nations are spread out

• gov is hesitant on giving power

what is a part of indigenous activism?

• less gov involvement with first nations, more self-determination

• power to the community

• increased autonomy

white paper policy

• abolishing legal documents concerning the First Nations in order to make them equal citizens

why is the white paper problematic

continuing assimilation because it does not classify Indigenous as distinct peoples

red paper

• response was the indigenous rejecting this policy, and eventually the white paper was withdrawn

events that deepen canadian understanding of fn needs for self determination

• truth and rec commission

• missing and murdered indigenous women

• UN declaration of indigenous rights

why did the oka crisis happen?

• town of Oka planned to use a Mohawk burying ground in order to build a condo.

  • the mohawk considered it sacred land and was part of a disagreement with the government over land claims

what happened during the oka crisis?

to defend this they set up a roadblock so that nobody can enter their ground. people died.

what did the mohawk want during the oka crisis?

complete soverignty