Susan Dion, Braiding Histories
Today we watched a lecture from Susan Dion that she gave to the Faculty Associates a few years previously. What an insightful presentation and I got a better understanding of the atrocity Indigenous People of North America dealt with from the hands of Europeans initially and their Euro-centric views. From the presentation Dion uses a Time Line to put into perspective the chain of events from the Pre-contact era right up to the Present day. This was very insightful and I could see myself using this technique when I was in a class. It was very easy and straight forward to understand and very powerful to observe. I was most shocked to learn about the creation of the Indian Act and how this was so profound and the complex situation of Non-status and Status. It has illustrated a very dark period in the history of Canada. I was very inspired from Dion's work and feel that I have only scratched the surface of this difficult topic.
Today we watched a lecture from Susan Dion that she gave to the Faculty Associates a few years previously. What an insightful presentation and I got a better understanding of the atrocity Indigenous People of North America dealt with from the hands of Europeans initially and their Euro-centric views. From the presentation Dion uses a Time Line to put into perspective the chain of events from the Pre-contact era right up to the Present day. This was very insightful and I could see myself using this technique when I was in a class. It was very easy and straight forward to understand and very powerful to observe. I was most shocked to learn about the creation of the Indian Act and how this was so profound and the complex situation of Non-status and Status. It has illustrated a very dark period in the history of Canada. I was very inspired from Dion's work and feel that I have only scratched the surface of this difficult topic.
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