- Colonization: A political, economical, ideological, environmental and physical actions to subjugate and exploit Indigenous people, land and resources.
* Formal and informal
* Colonizers engage in this process for social, political and financial power
* Results: loss identity, people/communities, lands and resources
* Colonization legacy leads to violence, dysfunction, alcohol and drug use
* Not just a historical narrative – current and ongoing through policy
- Turtle Island is the original name for North America and comes from a common indigenous creation story which can be seen in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGTln59YZj8
* This video was commissioned for the 2008 First Nations Folklorama Pavilion, however it does only tell one version of the aboriginal story of creation
- The term "First Nations" is a Canadian reference and is not considered a homogeneous group as there happens to be 133 Nations in Canada
* First Nations were considered as wards of the state
* Reserves were federally owned (therefore they had to pay the state for the land because they did not own it)
- In 1632 was when the first Residential school opened in Canada
* This video is a summary of what residential schools were and how they were run http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIKPE_urY8A
* Many traditions were lost upon entering Residential Schools
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| Residential School |
* all images retrieved from Google Images
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