About this Course
Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Huge Open On-line Course (MOOC) from the College of Native Research that explores the completely different histories and modern views of Indigenous peoples residing in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores complicated experiences Indigenous peoples face at this time from a historic and significant perspective highlighting nationwide and native Indigenous-settler relations. Matters for the 12 classes embrace the fur commerce and different change relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, authorized techniques and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and modern Indigenous life, artwork and its expressions.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
- Artwork Historical past
- Artwork
- Historical past
- Mythology
Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course
2 hours to finish
Worldview
On this introductory module, college students study the importance of tales and storytelling in Indigenous societies. We discover historical past that comes from Indigenous worldviews, this contains worldviews from the Inuit, Nehiyawak, Kanien:keha’ka and Tlingit peoples.
2 hours to finish
Fur Commerce
This module discusses pre-contact buying and selling techniques between Indigenous peoples of North America with a deal with the geographical area of Canada. We look at the chronological occasions of contact with Europeans and the occasions main as much as, and in the course of the fur commerce. This module additionally explores the lengthy lasting social, political and financial ramifications of the fur commerce on Indigenous peoples.
2 hours to finish
Trick or Treaty
Examines Indigenous and settler views of treaty making. Discusses the variation of treaties in Canada and the distinctive circumstances surrounding these occasions. Outlines the temporal and geographical historical past of the numbered treaties (starting on the east) and ends with a dialogue of the historic occasions and insurance policies main as much as Métis scrip.
2 hours to finish
New Guidelines, New Sport
This lesson begins with a dialogue about what’s distinctive in Indigenous authorized traditions. Explores impacts of insurance policies put in place as British North America tried to solidify itself geographically and socially. Examines the methods during which the Indian Act contributed to assimilation.
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