Aboriginal Identity
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ABORIGINAL IDENTITY
FNST 217 JACOB CARPENTER
IDENTITY: SHARE
- Something about your place of origin?
- Something you would like to learn more about, in regards to your place of origin?
- Where do you consider home?
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MANY ASPECTS THAT EFFECT ABORIGINAL IDENTITY
- Dark colonial past:
- Contact, residential school, 60s scoop
- Policy, discrimination, racism
- Potlatch ban, Child welfare
- Shame
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RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
CHILDREN WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR HOMES & COMMUNITIES VERY YOUNG
INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLING
- Traumatization, abuses, addictions
- Loss of culture, attachment & trust issues
- Indoctrination of Christianity
- Family & community dysfunction, shaming
- Loss of parenting & life skills
ABORIGINAL PEOPLE: 4 MAIN CHOICES
- Integrate: maintain their ethnicity & develop new relationships w/ mainstream society
- Assimilate: give up ethnic identity & take on the identity & culture of the mainstream society
- Separate: maintain ethnic identity & not develop ties w/ mainstream society
- Marginalize: give up their ethnic identity without developing a new one
RELIGION (CHRISTIANITY) VS. ABORIGINAL EPISTOMOLOGY
SHAME, RACISM, DISCRIMINIZATION
DUAL IDENTITY
LIVING WITH A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES
WHY DON'T ABORIGINAL PEOPLE LEAVE THERE COMMUNITIES & BECOME PART OF THE LARGER SOCIETE
DIVERSITY
OF CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
BELLA BELLA
MY SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
EDUCATION
- Insight
- Reflection
- Understanding
- Healing
HISTORY LESSON
- Out of the belly of Christopher's ship a mob bursts,
- running in all directions pulling furs off animals, shooting buffalo, shooting each other...
- Pioneers and traders bring gifts, Smallpox, Seagrams and Rice Krispies,
- Civilization has reached the promise land.
- --- Jeanette Armstrong, "History Lesson"
