Week 8 Flashcards
What is the topic of research of Dr.Battiste?
System of residential schools
What is the education system of the residential school influenced from and what is the consequence of it?
Influenced by British school system and it marginalizes the stereotypes of the Indigenous peoples.
How do Indigenous peoples see the natural world?
Relationship between nature and peoples are interconnected.
What is the European world view?
- Eurocentric beliefs: Natural world exists independent of any (biased) beliefs
- Scientific method: Want to find a connection/pattern between behaviour
Who is Edward Curtis and what does he do in relation of Indigenous image? (1868-1952)
Photographer for ethnography and he thought it was a race that was going extinct. He takes off any western objects from his photographies.
What are the consequences of Edward Curtis’s photography?
He promotes stereotypes of Indigenous people with his pictures by taking off anything unrelated to stereotyped indigenous objects, therefore promoting the idea that indigenous are not a progressive society.
Who is Vine Deloria Jr. and what did she do?
Studies anthropology and is an archeologist.
In what way was Vine Deloria Jr’s research illegal and immoral?
Unconsented display of Indigenous peoples remain in museum; unnecessary large amounts of digging resulting to bones everywhere (e.g sold on eBay), removal of ancestral/human remains from burial lands.
What are the results from the ethnographic researches on the Indigenous peoples, from an European point of view?
1- That assimilation and civilization is good, implying the idea that indigenous peoples are not (using them as examples of uncivilized people).
2- That only European societies know progress and that Indigenous peoples are primitive.
What is diffusionism and what impact does it have on Indigenous peoples image?
Attempt to understand patterns in different cultures and the origin of culture traits (spread from one society to another); since Indigenous culture was so different from the rest, Europeans summarized it as a stagnant and empty culture.
Who is Carmen Robertson and what role did she play in the image of Indigenous peoples?
Journalist + Projects a romanticized/exotic/primitive image of Indigenous peoples;
1- Primitive image of Ind. Peoples
2- When Ind. P. progress, then not Indian anymore
3- Ultimatum: European vs the Other (the bigger the contrast, the better for the Europeans)
How were Indigenous peoples seen as from Christophe Columbus’s perspective in Thomas King’s reading?
They [indigenous peoples] were seen as an annoying part of the “New World”, something Columbus wanted to get rid of.
How does Daniel Francis work towards the concept of “learning to unlearn”?
He goes to a world heritage site (Head-smashed-in buffalo jam) and view Indigenous peoples as Natives instead of as “Indians”.
What is the Rule of Three?
States that Indigenous peoples are:
1) depravity (innate corruption)
2) innate inferiority
3) stubborn resistance to progress
What are the characteristics of the Rule of Three compared to?
Compared to white Canadians
