POLS 237 - Co-Existence, Genocide, Reconciliation: Indigenous Nationhood and Canada | 2024-2025

Academic Year
2024-2025
Course Credits
3.00
Course ID
POLS 237
Course Name
Co-Existence, Genocide, Reconciliation: Indigenous Nationhood and Canada
Description
The history of First Nations, Métis Nations and Inuit Nations in Canada from time immemorial through to the present from various perspectives gained from interactions with Indigenous authors and guest speakers and cultural experiences such as immersion trips to Indigenous territories. Engage broad economic, social and political themes associated with Canada's settler society and gain cultural intelligence by analyzing from an Indigenous perspective how standard narratives of progress shaped early encounters, the fur trade economy, governmental policy, Christianity and culture, residential schools, land reserves and self- government. Considers the ways in which Indigenous nations utilized and reshaped Canada's historical narrative to resist assimilation, paternalism, civilization, marginalisation, and integration. Examines arguments for partnership, cooperation, negotiation and reconciliation in a movement towards peaceful co-existence.