WEEK 8 DISCUSSION POST

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Listen to the podcast "The Current: Residential school survivors' stories motivated people to make Canada better, says Murray Sinclair " (24 mins; or read the transcript of this section of the show , which begins part-way down the page ). 1) How has the residential school system impacted Indigenous culture and language loss for First Nations? Make reference to the geographical concepts discussed in this week's lecture. The residential school systems greatly impacted the indigenous culture and language loss for First Nations. Residential schools were set to assimilate Indigenous children into the dominant culture. In these schools, the government took children from their homes and cultural regions, and forced a disconnect from their own cultural system by teaching them their native culture and language was bad. The children were not allowed to speak in their native language, practice their belief system, or reach out to their family. These children believed that they were the problem and grew ashamed of themselves and their own culture and language. The government and churches that ran these “schools” used isolation as well as physical and mental abuse to assimilate these people. As learned in the lecture, governments have goals for an aesthetic for their country, and Canada’s ideal aesthetic for this country meant eliminating the indigenous people. This also connects to cultural hegemony as also discussed in this week’s lecture. Canada’s cultural hegemony is depicted through the ruling class (that being christian religion and white ethnicity) using these “schools” to manipulate and abuse the First Nations peoples out of their own belief system. As a result, the residential schools created generational trauma that continues today and that has also created endangerment of indigenous cultures and languages. 2) How has the 60's Scoop impacted Indigenous culture and language loss for First Nations? Make reference to the geographical concepts discussed in this week's lecture. The 60s scoop greatly affected indigenous culture and language for many First Nations as I learned in the “In Our Own Words” story. In this week's lecture, we learn about the idea of cultural systems where a group of people share a

collective identity, for example, a First Nations group. This system belongs to a cultural region, which is known as the area where these cultures are practiced. When relating to the 60s scoop, it is evident that such First Nations were removed from their cultural system and region in order to assimilate these Indigenous Peoples and their culture in Canada. Children were taken from their homes and given to families that were of white ethnicity and christian religion, so these Indigenous children had to grow up in households where they lost their connection and education to their own practices, language, identity, etc. As discussed in the lecture, language is an aspect of regional identity and is inherently geographical. Therefore, to take First Nations people away from their homes and out of their regions, we are limiting their ability to learn and stay connected to their languages, resulting in a large loss of knowledge and ability to carry on their language for future generations. The lasting impacts of this is something we also learned in this week’s lecture, as it states that Indigenous languages are the most endangered in the world. Overall, the 60s scoop shares insight on how the removal of children from their cultural regions resulted in the loss of education and connection to their native culture and language.

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