- 10 Mar, 2021
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“The Native Peoples of America
Read:
1. Dorland’s “The Native Peoples of America” (from Our Canada, 1949, pp 11-20) (pdf)
2. Cranny, M.W. (1998). Crossroads: A meeting of nations (pp. 19, 195). Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Ginn Canada.
3. Carleton, S.F.P. (2008). Colonizing minds : Public education, the Textbook Indian, and the struggle for settler hegemony in British Columbia, 1920-1970. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
4. Carter, S. (1999). Aboriginal people and the colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (pp.50, 60-61). Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
5. Bowers, Vivien and Stan Garrod. Excerpt from “The Opening of the West”, Our Land: Building the West. Peter Massiah, Ed., 1987, pp 126-133.
6. Francis, D., & Riddoch, S. (1985). The First People. In Our Canada: A social and political history (pp. 21-25). Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart.
Write a paragraph (200 words) about whether you think Carleton makes an effective analysis of Dorland’s chapter. Why or why not?
Based on the readings you have done on The Great Law of Peace and Carleton’s “Colonizing Minds”, please explain in 2 paragraphs (400 words) how you think Parker and Carleton would respond to Cranny’s textbook, Crossroads.
Write a paragraph (200 words) assessing what effect the focus on the Fur Trade in textbooks has on the portrayal on Indigenous People in history.