[Answered] ANTH 2140 Final Exam Assignment

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ANTH 2140 Final Exam Assignment

 

Here is your final exam take home assignment. The goal of this assignment is to engage with the ideas that we have been exploring all term in the ways that they have resonated with you. The emphasis is on the last part of the term since the midterm.

 

What I am looking for here is your engagement – this isn’t about right or wrong answers. Please use whatever resources that you have available – the Internet, the lecture videos, slides, notes from the readings, the books themselves… 

 

Please think of this more like an assignment than an exam – and an opportunity to tell me about your journey through the material that we have covered together. In some questions I ask for your responses in paragraph form. If I don’t, point form is just fine if that is how you want to express yourself.

 

Take your time, go back through the slides and notes, and reflect on the term. I look so forward to reading your words.

 

  1. Treaties and the Indian Act  (5 marks)

 

  1. What were the main goals of the Numbered Treaties:

 

  • For European newcomer governments? (1 marks)

 

  • For the Indigenous groups that signed them? (1 marks)

 

  1. What was the main goal of the Indian Act when it came into law in 1876? 

(1 marks)

 

  1. In paragraph form, discuss why it is important to understand the Numbered Treaties AND the Indian Act together.  How did/do they work together as strategies in the colonial government’s goal of “Dealing with the Indian Problem”?  Please use specific examples from each (Treaties and Indian Act) as you discuss how these technologies work(ed) to “Deal with the Indian Problem” and accomplish the goals of the Indian Act  (2 marks).

 

  1. Residential Schools (10 marks)

 

  1. Please select a passage from The Education of Augie Merasty that struck you. This passage can be long or short. Please start by sharing the whole passage with me (including the page #) and then I invite to share what struck you about it, drawing at least one connection between the passage and something that we have talked about throughout the course. The idea here is to honour and thank Augie for his courage and generosity in sharing his story. (6 marks)

 

  1. Having read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s “Calls to Action” in response to the Residential School System, reflect on what you can do to actualize lived reconciliation in Canada by:
  • Select (at least) one of the Calls to Action to forth by the TRC. Identify which one you have selected. (1 mark)
  • In paragraph form, tell me what you will do in response to this particular call to action. (3 marks)

 

  1. Forced Relocations (9 marks) 

 

  1. Reflecting on the film Broken Promises, tell me about 3 things that stood out for you about this story of forced relocation? (3 marks)

 

  1. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples grouped the relocation activities of government into two types; administrative and development. With these justifications for forced relocations in mind, in paragraph form please offer an example of a forced relocation of an Indigenous community in Canada (other than the ones discussed in Broken Promises or Night Spirits).   Feel free to use whatever resources you have available to research another story of relocation. Please tell me about the community, the justification given by the government, and the implications. The goal here is to keep learning about the things that we are never taught. Be curious and open – in the spirit of that act of remembrance. There are so many examples of communities like Ila’s. Tell me about one of them. (5 marks)

 

  1. Given everything that we have talked about all term, why do you think there is so much silence around the issue of the forced relocations of indigenous peoples in Canada? (1 mark)

 

  1. Night Spirits (6 marks)

 

In paragraph form answer one of the following questions:

 

  1. Discuss the title of the book Night Sprits.  Select and discuss 3 points that speak to the significance of the title. 

 

OR

 

  1.  Select 3 main themes from the course and discuss how they figure in the book Night Sprits. (This can be any three from the entire term)

 

  1. Your Indigenous Studies (2 marks)

 

In paragraph form, reflecting on what you have learned throughout this course, how might an indigenous studies approach shape or inform your practice in your chosen field of specialization? In other words, how can you apply what you have learned to your practice (professional or personal) in a way that contributes to changing the way we move forward in this place now called Canada?

 

Thank you all so much for sharing this time with me.

 

 

 

Solution

  1. What were the main goals of the Numbered Treaties?

The main goal for the numbered treaties for the European newcomer government was to secure land for settlement, agricultural and industrial development (Starblanket, 2019). Secondly, the Treaty provide various rights for the government, such as the right to haunt and fish on all ceded land not used for settlement and right for the government to build public buildings and roads……………  Purchase the link to access the full answer @$9