Lesson 60

 Two media pieces to be posted later - missed posting from the classroom.

• Piece on Mark Carney's father - (and Sean Carlton's ask)
• Old propaganda piece + quote from P.E. Trudeau on assimilation and government policy
  

We read through neeeeearly to the end of “The Four Winds” to the top of 75

Anyone who missed today’s class should attend Monday’s tutorial.

 

Lesson 59

 Today's class began with a talk about taking responsibility for one's learning, and being accountable in advance of planned absences (as well as coming to tutorial after any unplanned absences, in order to catch up).

We looked at a variety of current articles, related to course content (we did not read them in depth - NB - students should be mindful of their own capacities to handle some of the more upsetting and graphic details in some of the texts. There is no need to engage with the materials beyond their comfort level.)

Materials mentioned:

• Defining residential school denialism
•  Robert Jago's discussion of how Indigenous land "works"
• A current article on forced sterilization of Inuit women 
• Newfoundland Department of Education has had to destroy $200K worth of new, French language texts on Indigenous folks, as they were found to be racist... 
• Agnes Benn's testimony, and the testimony of other RS students, was not sent to the TRC. This leaves us with questions about why that didn't happen, and how many other's were not heard.
• Buffalo Woman's identity has been confirmed - and her family is getting some closure as the search continues in Manitoba.
• The Federal and Provincial governments are working with the Haisla on a project to ship LNG to Asia

Students read The Plague of Madness and took notes/discussed the chapter, before reading the first few pages of The Four Winds, which we will continue reading next class.