Against Erasure
How do Treaties differ?
Classification: Numbered Treaties; who is within the relationship; what terms were determined; etc.
What is Peoplehood?
- the fact or state of being a community of people of shared race or nationality, often with the implication of associated status or rights.
-awareness of one's identity as a member of a particular people.
The concept of peoplehood has a double meaning. The first is descriptive, as a concept factually describing the existence of the Jews as a people.
The second is normative, (means relating to an evaluative standard) as a value that describes the feeling of belonging and commitment to the Jewish people.
Do different world views affect a peoples’ notions of knowledge?
Ex. think of how colonial notions are quantifiable
Yes many reasons.
Think of how western science is about identifying and classifying species whereas that is not the important bit for INDG peoples, we are concerned with how we relate to them, ex. medicines, reciprocity, kin.
Think of the differences in how we are taught, standardized vs non-standardized/ familial teachers. What part of our worldviews may have affected that?
What do Canada, the USA, New Zealand, and Australia have in common?
What does their (common thing) and the United Kingdom’s statement have in common?
They are all settler nation-states.
The UK as a colonizing nation and the settler nation-states both have an agenda of ensuring dominance over minorities within their borders.
1. How would you describe the relationship that was sealed between peoples with a Treaty?
2. How would you describe the relationship between First Nations and the canadian govnt/Crown?
1. Reciprocal, respectful, amicable, good-faith / trust, mutually beneficial, an ongoing relationship.
2. Canadian govnt/Crown made them in bad faith, not reciprocal, a forgotten/dismissed relationship (by many Canadians, gonvt/Crown cant afford to forget).
What is Indigenous Peoplehood?
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[Ontology: concerned with “the nature of being.” This week we are studying the voices of those who are looking into the world of academia and engaging with it by “being” who they are according to their self-identified culture and connection to that culture and sense of Indigenous being.]
In other words, INDG academics engage in academia by being unapologetically INDG and critiquing academia from their perspectives.
How do you think academia benefits from INDG peoples and their manner of engaging?
Challenges colonial notions. Nuances conversations. Adds first hand experience and knowledge. (Indigenizes institutions)
What is the difference between Treaties and the Indian Act?
Treaties are agreements made by two parties, the Indian Act is a western legal document which determined the nature of how First Nations exist within Canada.
Describe the power dynamics between the Canadian govnt/Crown and Indigenous Peoples.
Has it changed over time?
Hierarchical with the Canadian govnt/Crown being the dominant.
When white folks first arrived they depended on First Nations to survive. They partnered with them against other white folks. Then they turned around after their victory and treated INDG peoples as wards and in the way.
Universities in US uphold their sense of power through hierarchical structures that privilege certain identities and classes at the exclusion of others.
Discuss some methods universities use.
$, name/legacy, privileging of fields of study, professors, etc.
Are there pros and cons to Treaties?
Depends on who you ask.
The reserve system, especially in the early days, was very problematic. Why?
Are Treaties upheld by the Canadian govnt/Crown?
Are the rights that are outlined within them protective or limiting?
Without the rights outlined in Treaties, would they be protected at all?
Why is this topic Ontological Interventions through Indigenous Knowledge important to INDG 1010: Introduction to Indigenous Peoplehood Studies?
you tell me.
Why is this topic of erasure and being against erasure important to INDG 1010: Introduction to Indigenous Peoplehood Studies?
It challenges dominant narratives of loss versus agendas of destruction and assimilation. The theme of dominance. It also places languages as a site of resistance, look at the title again. Ends with a feeling of continuance, of hope for Indigenous languages existing in the future.
What is the significance of Treaties?
Why?
Why?
Why?
They establish a relationship between First Nations and cad govnt/Crown
They detail and uphold the rights of First Nations.
At the core of the matter, Canada does not exist without them.