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15 Cards in this Set
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Colonialism |
- a project of cultural domination / cultural project - ongoing not an event in history - colonial relations re-energized in present through schools, laws, policies, everyday encounters |
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Structures of Colonialism (cultural domination) |
• law's • language • education • cultural norms • political structures • economic systems |
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Cultural domination |
newcomers overtake group that's already there |
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Ways of Knowing |
• all ways of knowing honoured as equally legitimate • systems of knowledge that guide how world is understood • lens of how we make sense of world • critical for collective survival |
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3 Central Tenants of Native Studies |
1. Multiple ways of knowing 2. Multidisciplinary / multiple perspectives 3. Critically engaged colonialism |
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Politics & Power of Representation |
- reel injun - normalized dom. way of knowing - who's interests are served - how does this shape live relationships? - reflected through film and news - be critically engaged and don't accept representations as facts |
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Places |
- networks of relations - they happen, take place, and come together - not sites where our lives occur, they are made by our interactions with them - networks of relations between time, space, people, etc. - we make our places in, through, and with the land |
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Land |
network of relations that ties people, the cosmos, the air, trees, water, rocks, grasses, everything together |
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Ecological Zones |
1. Arctic 2. Subarctic 3. Plateau 4. Plains 5. Northwest coast 6. Northeast / Eastern Woodlands |
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Arctic |
- edged by treeline (variable) - inland & coastal areas - Inuit groups - temps affect where ppl go - foraging and moving around in order to survive - utilizing natural resources - Inuit ppl forced into settlements, not included in Indian act because of HBC |
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Subarctic |
- below treeline (boreal forest) - large fona - protein growth - fish, birds - weather differences - need to move a lot |
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Eastern Woodlands |
- large dense forest - by Illinois, Quebec, Maritimes - lush soil & greenery - horticulturists - permanent settlements |
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The Plains |
- primary insistent strategy - horses (transportation) - ppl affected by contact diseases - agriculture - railway |
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Plateau |
- bc coast range and Rockies - hot dry summers - cold dry winters - deer, caribou, moose, elk - river systems - rich plants - semi permanent places - gold rush |
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the coast |
- can stay in one spot forever - able to build structures - totem poles - 17 diff. languages - complex nation to nation relationships - potlatch history |
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