Cans 200 Reconciliation lecture
questions well answered
Truth and reconciliation commission - correct answer ✔✔June 15th, 94 calls to action but how
much action has been taken, works on assumption that something traumatic happened, usually
starts with acknowledgement of guilt and an apology - must come with action however, other
examples in South Africa, Chile and Rwanda
Overarching question - correct answer ✔✔What are the key barriers to reconciliation? how are
they overcome?
Indian Act as a barrier to reconciliation - correct answer ✔✔facilitates actions of colonialization
as a tool of the state, allowed for state to strip Indigenous status when the person was deemed
"civil" to enter mainstream settler society
Bill C-31, 1985 - correct answer ✔✔Removal of the discriminatory clause from the Indian Act
and women and their children were able to regain their status. led to greater gender rights,
Canadian charter of rights and freedoms helped further this movement
Current issues of reconciliation - correct answer ✔✔culture of colonialization continues, missing
and murdered Indigenous women, unjust resource extraction, Indian Act still defining
Indigenous relationships
Residential School Systems - correct answer ✔✔provided institutional infrastructure that
removed Indigenous culture, (cultural genocide) funded by gov and run by Church, existed
before confederation but Indian Act made them mandatory, schools were made far away to
isolate children from their families to increase assmiliation
questions well answered
Truth and reconciliation commission - correct answer ✔✔June 15th, 94 calls to action but how
much action has been taken, works on assumption that something traumatic happened, usually
starts with acknowledgement of guilt and an apology - must come with action however, other
examples in South Africa, Chile and Rwanda
Overarching question - correct answer ✔✔What are the key barriers to reconciliation? how are
they overcome?
Indian Act as a barrier to reconciliation - correct answer ✔✔facilitates actions of colonialization
as a tool of the state, allowed for state to strip Indigenous status when the person was deemed
"civil" to enter mainstream settler society
Bill C-31, 1985 - correct answer ✔✔Removal of the discriminatory clause from the Indian Act
and women and their children were able to regain their status. led to greater gender rights,
Canadian charter of rights and freedoms helped further this movement
Current issues of reconciliation - correct answer ✔✔culture of colonialization continues, missing
and murdered Indigenous women, unjust resource extraction, Indian Act still defining
Indigenous relationships
Residential School Systems - correct answer ✔✔provided institutional infrastructure that
removed Indigenous culture, (cultural genocide) funded by gov and run by Church, existed
before confederation but Indian Act made them mandatory, schools were made far away to
isolate children from their families to increase assmiliation
