Introduction to the Canadian Indigenous context through a focus on FNMI perspectives of space and place, contact, law, ethnogenesis, colonialism, segregation, integration, languages, aesthetics and diverse historical relations. Resistant interpretations of conventional wisdom with regards to FNMI/colonial relations. This course is especially targeted at students considering a career in any occupation in which they will be interacting with Indigenous peoples, while increasing general understanding of, and sensitivity toward, Canadian Indigenous perspectives.
Introduction to the Canadian Indigenous context through a focus on FNMI perspectives of space and place, contact, law, ethnogenesis, colonialism, segregation, integration, languages, aesthetics and diverse historical relations. Resistant interpretations of conventional wisdom with regards to FNMI/colonial relations. This course is especially targeted at students considering a career in any occupation in which they will be interacting with Indigenous peoples, while increasing general understanding of, and sensitivity toward, Canadian Indigenous perspectives.