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SUMMARY: Indigenous people in modern-day Canada experienced some of the same tragedies as in modern-day America. However, it seems like some interactions were less antagonistic and since then, Canada has tried to help heal collective trauma.
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- May 2021
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
This reminds me of the restorative justice component of our last unit
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redress
redress: remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance.
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These attempts reached a climax in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with forced integration and relocations
This reminds me of Andrew Windy Boy and other Indigenous people who were in colonial schools
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Although not without conflict, European Canadians' early interactions with First Nations and Inuit populations were relatively peaceful
This seems "couching"
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The decline is attributed to several causes, including the transfer of European diseases, such as influenza, measles, and smallpox to which they had no natural immunity,[29][33] conflicts over the fur trade, conflicts with the colonial authorities and settlers, and the loss of Indigenous lands to settlers and the subsequent collapse of several nations' self-sufficiency
Painful and persistent history
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Some of these cultures had collapsed by the time European explorers arrived in the late 15th and early 16th centuries and have only been discovered through archeological investigations
Ancient civilizations
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First Nations
This seems like a better term than "Native Americans"
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the last being a mixed-blood people who originated in the mid-17th century when First Nations people married European settlers and subsequently developed their own identity
In Central & South America, they say "Creole" or "Mestizo"
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