Aboriginals

Divergent Value System-
• Aboriginals are so different,
• Land, can never own the land
• Aboriginal’s don't believe u can own the land
• That's why they are free roaming like gypsy’s
• All the land the used to roam in were now taken over
• Food supply is now gone
• Cannot get along because value system is tot different
• Have to use all the parts of an animal never wasted or thrown away
• Don't stay in one location because their spirit will die
• Don't stay in one spot the whole time
• Need to free their spirit
• Decide that they’re going to send them to reservations
• Said they’re going to give them more room to expand
• Reservations don't work
• Different life system, values
• Cant get along

Indian Act→ residential schools
• Treat aboriginals like children
• Gov. is supposed to take care of them
• Protect them from the immigrants who are coming
• Not really a protection
• Gov. does whatever the want to them
• Res schools- children will be easier taught than adults
• The way to change minds of aboriginals, take away all the children and change their values
• Run by the catholic church and nuns
• Gov never checked to see what was going on
• They were abused
• They were sent back and they couldn't remember their language
• Didn't like the food
• Religion was different, they don't know any of the rituals
• Boys become men and they have to go out for 3 days and survive get everything (hunting)
• Elders prepare u for that
• Survival skills
• Come back from residential schools and don't know what’s going on
• Land-gov decides there are certain parts of land they want, and the aboriginals will have certain land given back to them
• Nunavut already promised to them
• Parts in Quebec newfoundland
• And treaties and gov will take a long time to give it to them
The white paper
• Pm trudeau tries to get rid of Indian act
• Aboriginals say until u write it down, what is going to be given to us, we’re not going with it
• Trudeau thought aboriginals would be free if u let them go
• Indian act has been around for a long time
• Cant just get rid of it
• Native ppl see it as a way or protection because gov is responsible for them
• Say to them to write it down, because they don't want to get rid of their funding
• Dont think they will survive
• Canadians- all their money and they don't know where its going
• Not spent properly
• Goes into other ppls pocket
• What replace Indian act?
• Canadians are mad be

Conflicts→ fighting back
• OKA
• Young aboriginals believe in fighting back
• Want their land from the Indian act
• Want oka
• Town in Quebec
• Burial ground
• Aboriginals have been burying their dead there
• Want to build on that land
• Gov still owns the land, natives think its there
• Developer wants to build a golf course
• Cant touch it unless all the families agree to let t hem build on it
• Aboriginals do not believe u should move the bodies because u are insulting them
• And developer made a deal with them
• Says they’re going to move it somewhere else
• Natives start war
• Gov thinks they own, natives think they own
• Gov sends in rcmp
• Aboriginals got