Beyond Religion
What religion were Spanish missionaries attempting to convert Indigenous peoples too?
Christian/Catholisism
In the Miranda reading, what signaling is used to dictate the day, including when they woke up, prayed and ate and more. Where were these signaling devices located, and who built these locations?
Bells, they were located in the churches which were built by the indigenous peoples.
What is the name of the Indigenous storyteller and language knowledge holder whose contributions Miranda discusses?
Isabel Meadows
What question does Point ask when looking where the analysis of residential schools must start?
At the beginning -> asking the question why governments claimed the authority to take Indigenous children at all (pg. 99)
What term does Point use for harm experienced by one generation that continues to affect family life even after exposure and closure of these institutions?
Intergenerational Trauma
Please name at least two ways that we see the Spanish settlers in Miranda’s reading destroy and replace the previously existing indigenous ways of life.
Daily activities, including work, meals, when to rest, when to socialize, beatings, control of relationships
In Point’s, The Hallow Tree, he describes multiple ways in which the Government of Canada and religious institutions operated residential schools. What were 2 of the religious institutions that operated schools as well as two governmental institutions?
Religious institutions: Christian, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and United Churches. Governmental Institutions: Indian Agents and Police
Identify one way Indigenous families resisted compulsory residential school attendance.
Refusing to send their children or hiding them from government authorities.
Who wrote the surviving history of the California missions?
The padres, which is why Miranda writes from inside their archive to expose its bias
In “Genealogy of Violence, Part II”, Miranda places missionaries’ complaints that Indigenous parents weren’t chastising their children enough alongside the final scene of domestic abuse by her father’s belt. Why does she do this?
The violence wasn’t traditional - Missionaries punished the children, which was then passed down when the children became parents.