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本课程《加拿大土著概况》是来自土著研究系的12节大型开放在线课程（MOOC），主要探讨加拿大土著历史和当代问题。课程从土著的视角出发，深入分析当前土著人民所面临的关键问题，并重点讨论国家和地方的土著与移民关系。课程内容涵盖皮毛贸易及其他交换关系、土地索赔及环境影响、法律系统和权利、政治冲突与联盟、土著政治行动主义以及当代土著生活和艺术表现等主题。 课程大纲如下： 1. **世界观**：介绍土著社会中故事和叙事的重要性，探索来自不同土著民族（如因纽特人、内赫亚瓦克人、卡涅恩：凯哈卡人和丁利特人）的世界观。 2. **皮毛贸易**：讨论北美土著民族在接触之前的贸易系统，重点关注加拿大的地理区域，探索与欧洲人接触的事件以及皮毛贸易的长期社会、政治和经济影响。 3. **契约与协议**：考察土著人与移民的契约签订视角，讨论加拿大的契约多样性及其独特背景。 4. **新规则，新游戏**：讨论土著法律传统的特色和英国北美为巩固自身而实施的相关政策的影响。 5. **“在孩子身上消灭印第安人”**：概述土著社区的教学与学习特征，探讨寄宿学校系统的实施及其代际影响。 6. **现代印第安人？**：研究土著领导人的抗争及土著主导组织的形成，以及城市化过程对土著社区的影响。 7. **红色力量**：学习不同土著政治结构的关键特征及殖民对这些结构的影响，探讨自我治理与自主决定等概念。 8. **主权土地**：联系当代与传统例子，探讨土著世界观与传统生态知识，并讨论持续的土地与资源权利的法律案例及其挑战。 9. **土著女性、女孩与性别多元群体**：探讨土著的性别概念及其在殖民下的影响，强调殖民对土著女性的具体影响。 10. **城市中的土著**：批判性地分析城市对土著文化的影响，探索城市土著的治理实践与城市保留地。 11. **当前社会运动**：解释土著的人群概念，探讨传统与现代社会及环境运动如何动员和创建社区，回顾关键的草根抗争事件。 12. **“活”的传统——流行文化与艺术表现**：探索地理、贸易网络对土著艺术的影响，研究土著艺术家如何回应殖民影响的当代艺术作品。 通过这门课程，学习者将对土著社会及其丰富的历史、文化与当代挑战有更深刻的理解。
Name:Worldview
Description:In this introductory module, students learn the significance of stories and storytelling in Indigenous societies. We explore history that comes from Indigenous worldviews, this includes worldviews from the Inuit, Nehiyawak, Kanien:keha’ka and Tlingit peoples.
Name:Fur Trade
Description:This module discusses pre-contact trading systems between Indigenous peoples of North America with a focus on the geographical region of Canada. We examine the chronological events of contact with Europeans and the events leading up to, and during the fur trade. This module also explores the long lasting social, political and economic ramifications of the fur trade on Indigenous peoples.
Name:Trick or Treaty
Description:Examines Indigenous and settler perspectives of treaty making. Discusses the variation of treaties in Canada and the unique circumstances surrounding these events. Outlines the temporal and geographical history of the numbered treaties (beginning on the east) and ends with a discussion of the historical events and policies leading up to Métis scrip.
Name:New Rules, New Game
Description:This lesson begins with a discussion about what is distinctive in Indigenous legal traditions. Explores impacts of policies put in place as British North America attempted to solidify itself geographically and socially. Examines the ways in which the Indian Act contributed to assimilation.
Name:“Killing the Indian in the Child”
Description:Outlines characteristics of teaching and learning in Indigenous communities, and discusses how relationships were critical in teaching and learning. Traces the development and implementation of the Residential school system in the period after Confederation. Discusses intergenerational impact of Residential school system and the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Name:A Modern Indian?
Description:This lesson examines the burgeoning resistance of Indigenous leaders and the formation of Indigenous-led organizations as the Canadian government employed strategies to encourage assimilation of Aboriginal peoples and communities into mainstream society, specifically relating to urbanization.
Name:Red Power
Description:In this lesson students will learn about key characteristics of a few different Indigenous political structures and the impacts of colonialism on these structures (e.g. Indian Act, Red Power/AIM, White Paper, Red Paper -Citizens Plus) Concepts explored include self-government, self-determination, and Indigenous resurgence.
Name:Sovereign Lands
Description:Utilizing contemporary and traditional examples, this lesson connects Indigenous worldviews and traditional ecological knowledge. As well, this lesson traces the historical impacts of settlement. Discusses key concepts of case law associated with Aboriginal title, rights to land and resources. List the on-going threats to Indigenous lands and how these threats and challenges are being addressed.
Name:Indigenous Women, Girls, and Genderful People
Description:Exploring Indigenous concepts of gender, and the traditional roles and responsibilities, this lesson then moves into an examination of how colonization can be characterized as a gendered project. Identifies some concrete examples of the impact of colonialism on Indigenous women.
Name:Indigenous in the City
Description:Looking critically at the statement: “Cities are the place where Aboriginal culture goes to die”, this lesson explores sites of urban Aboriginal agency/active participation, urban Aboriginal governance practices, and urban reserves.
Name:Current Social Movements
Description:What is an Indigenous concept of community? How do Indigenous people form communities traditionally and today? This module will explain how social and environmental activism can mobilize and create communities. This module identifies key moments such as the Oka Crisis, Idle No More and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are grassroots resistance movements.
Name:‘Living’ Traditions – Expressions in Pop Culture and Art
Description:Finally, we will explore how geographical location, trading networks and partnerships have influenced Indigenous art in the past. As well, we will examine contemporary iterations of Indigenous art and explore some of the artistic responses of Indigenous artists, musicians, and writers to the impacts of colonialism.
Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.
