lecture 8 Flashcards
Removal of the capital letter in aboriginal writing.
Making the people feel lesser
Every other ethnicity has a capital other than aboriginal.
Erasure.
The erasing of a people through diminishing them from existence.
- Language of public and mainstream projects an understanding of who and what indigenous people are.
Langaue projects image, and lowercase projects an image
- the unfairness and disresepct of not captinalizing the Indiginous Native or Aborigal
- Notions of identity are fluid - ingenious people do live in, dress in and contribute to present day life.
- What their own use of language is - how do they describe or make use of words that describe ingenious people.
Class 2:
Settling on a name.
White non-native Non-aboriginal Non-indigenous Europien Settler Settler colonialist.
- Communcation is more than just words.
The majority has the power to sanction widely accepted words. Naming people is just as important as naming indigenous people if we are going to TALK ABOUT HOW THE PAST INFORMS THE PRSENT
IN great part this is due to the fact that teh majority tends to have the power to sanction and widely accept terms without regard o look at themselves
Language is everything.
How you speak is who you are. Alone or in public.
is there such thing as total or complete inclusive?
Do we only look at people from the outside? or from the inside.
Exterioroity
interioroirty.
What was the point of the privilage walk?
You do not pick your own circumstance.
Why was it an activity taht was completed before the indian act was read out to you.
To place perspective of circumstance that Ingenious peoples did not choose, and still had to work through it.
And when a NDN child is born, they are born into it. it tells you who you are, who you will love, and where you will live.
What did we learn about the indian act when it was read to us?
- 1 = both parents
6. 2 = 1 parents
- 1 + 6.1 = 6.1 status
- 2 + 6.1 = 6.1 status
- 2 + no status = no status
- 1 + no status = 6.2
If an NDN person is non-staus. Then they are not leaglly NDN.
Not having status dose not mean they are not NDN.
The eyes of the law and the eye of the person is not the same measure of a person.
The goverement only deals with status NDN’s
Metis - what one of your parnets is an NDN
if you know a person who is MEtis, this is typically a membership card for a provical membership/orginization card, not a status card. They are not status NDN’s.
metis have limited hunting and fishing rights.
In some instances Metis identiy may becomes an issue of blood Quantum. But in canada it is no longer an identifyer.
Although it still is in canada.
m = 0.5 Fn and 0.5 not
M = sociopolitical process with a shared common experece that became a national identify - some think only red river ones are real.
Kinship ties are prevalent in this discription. (dating back to the 1850’s
The problem with this, is that many people claiming this are not claimed by us. some people just “feel more native”.
This furthers the means of colonial erasure.
the goverment of canada has never defined the word Inuit
They would need to take responsibility if they do
Although the indian act continues to outline federal resposnisibility for FN in canada, there is no corrosponding legislation or policy for inuit.
Eskimo id system was from 1941 - 1971 but went on longer
and no other NDN population had to deal with this.
You needed the number to have any benifit, and all the necessities
