Sentences with phrase «of white settler»

Everything I learned about things like the «settling of the west» or about the Riel rebellion or the Indian Act or the residential school systems was through the lens of white settler versions of Canadian textbooks.

The treaties promised First Nations farming equipment and instruction, but it was often of poor quality, and Indigenous farmers could not sell their produce without the approval of Indian agents, who were sensitive to the concerns of white settlers who resented the competition.

If fallenness can be attributed to the arrival of white settlers, and the «creation» has its own integrity rather than intrinsic brokenness, redemption becomes a matter of human effort and re-education.

Cooper hits the gas quickly with an opening sequence in which a band of rabid Comanche raiders descend upon a seemingly peaceful family of white settlers.

Kelly Reichardt's 2010 western Meek's Cutoff, set in 1845, follows a group of white settlers traversing the Oregon desert who along the way capture a Cayuse Native American — only credited as «The Indian».

For example, as the western genre has sought to eulogise the mission of white settlers, for a long time Native American characters were rarely, if ever, translated (when Native languages were used — often it was gibberish, or even English dialogue played backwards).

The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people.

Patent also shows the impact of the later intrusion of white settlers and the intervention of the U.S. Army on the Plains Indians» way of life.

Patent traces the bond between Native Americans and horses, describing how many First Nations people relied on the animals to assist them in hunting buffalo and how the intrusion of white settlers spelled disaster for their way of life.

How did the coming of white settlers change the native way of life, particularly in terms of families» relations to the land, a traditional economy, and education?

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As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

They are songs of creation, handed down from the Dreamtime, mythic maps of lands that white settlers have taken away.

The worst of the butchery happened after the surviving settlers waved a white flag of surrender, and then were executed at close range after the false truce.

The Afrikaners are a tight - knit white tribe, descendants of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers, as well as some blacks, no doubt.

Supremacy of the «Master Race» in Germany, the «white man «s burden» in Africa and Asia, the «manifest destiny» of settlers over the Indians in America, the «evil empire» of the Soviet Union — these and other myths are powerfully motivate and support various public policies and actions today.

White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

From Erin: Hi Randy, I live in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada... highly populated region of First Nations (mainly Cree and Dene) and Metis people... What do you see the role being for the white settlers now?

The Creek and Seminole inhabitants of Florida adopted the peaches and they were passed from tribe to tribe and spread throughout North America faster than the white settlers.

Along the Cascadia segment, geologists could find no evidence of major quakes in «all of recorded history» — the 140 years since white settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and began keeping records.

The eradication of wetlands in the so - called New World began when white settlers, intent on taming the land, started developing homesteads and town sites throughout what was to become the United States and Canada.

While collecting information for his work «Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia,» G. Bennet marveled at the use of emu oil by Aborigines and early white settlers to heal wounds, reduce pain and relieve muscular disorders with great success.

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As it is, The Missing indicts the general push and racist presumptions of modernization, as white populations move West and South, glances briefly at other futures offered by technologies (recording and military), and can't quite grapple with the displacement that is the white settlers» lot, by definition.

As it is, The Missing indicts the general push of modernization, as white populations move West and South, glances briefly at other futures offered by technologies (recording and military), and can't quite grapple with the displacement that is the white settlers» lot, by definition.

Like the children of the story, the white children and Aborigine can exist as friends for a time, but ultimately, the death of the customs and lives of the original Australian settlers is a certainty.

Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country, which won deserved prizes at last year's Venice and Toronto film festivals, carries on that tradition in eccentric, elegiac style, tackling the country's history of colonial oppression with a Western about the manhunt for an aboriginal stockman (Hamilton Morris) who kills a white settler in self - defense.

In 1892, however, white settlers found themselves under constant threat of being shot and scalped, playing a defensive game against the local «savages» — terrifyingly illustrated in «Hostiles»» opening scene, in which a group of Comanches ride up to a homestead and slaughter all but Rosalee, who barely escapes with her own life.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

Dustin Hoffman is superb as a young white settler kidnapped by the Indians and raised as one of them, who is abruptly «rescued» to return to the white world.

The way it portrays the clash of cultures between the white settlers and the Native Americans whose lands were taken, corrupting the souls of those on both... Read More»

The arrival of a new Pollyanna McIntosh movie is generally worthy of note among genre fans, mainly because the fantastic Scottish actress seems to have pretty solid taste in horror scripts (Offspring, The Woman, White Settlers, etc.), but also because she's a fine lead actor... and super pretty to boot.

Instead, though it's easy to miss the single line of dialogue that explains this (about the camping site once being the location of a massacre of the Koori people by settlers), Killing Ground is about white guilt.

Few facts are known of Slow's childhood and upbringing, although Marrin fills in details of Lakota (or Sioux, as they were known to the white explorers and settlers) child - rearing practices.

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

In the first decades of the 19th century, the Cherokees did everything possible to adapt to the white settler culture that was encroaching on their homeland.

Sullivan gathers a posse led by the dangerous and fascinating Inspector Edmund Noone and his Queensland Native Police, an infamous arm of British colonial power charged with the «dispersal» of indigenous Australians to «protect» white settler rights.

The Five Nations, collectively known to themselves as the Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House), but better known today by the derogatory term given to them by white settlers, Iroquois meaning rattlesnake, are a group of Native American tribes consisting of the Seneca (People of the Great Hill), Cayuga (People of the Great Swamp), Onondaga (People of the Hills),...

The settlers» ignorance of the indigenous population's philosophy and lifestyle becomes clear as the story progresses and the white man's attitude to the blacks is skilfully rendered with a violent climax.

The drive also includes the historic spot on Alki Beach where the first white settlers arrived in Seattle and spent the winter of 1851 before retreating to the less blustery site on Elliot Bay that became downtown.

Add to this the beautiful churches in Wartburg, Harburg and Hermannsburg, the settler church in York and any number of outdoor activities, such as white - water rafting near Weenen, zipline sliding in the Karkloof Valley, or birding in the Mpushini Valley Wilderness, and there is enough to keep you and the family entertained for days.

The term «free state» dates back to South Africa's early history when, for almost 150 years, the white settlers, who lived between the Vaal and Orange rivers in an area they called the Orange Free State, were independent of British rule.

Between the near guarantee of absolutely breathtaking weather, the exciting and unique culture, stemming from a mixture of West African, Creole, Indian and British settlers at different times in the islands history, and the world - famous white sand beaches, there isn't a single facet of Barbados that takes away from the pleasures of a private villa rental vacation experience.

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Here, the artist symbolically represents how fear of the unknown, like the fear of Aboriginals that historically gripped white settlers, could be overcome by searching for and gaining knowledge of its point of origin.

In Shannon Te Ao's installation «With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods», commissioned for the Edinburgh Art Festival, the New Zealand artist begins to intone a 19th - century lament for a Māori princess afflicted by leprosy (a disease which arrived with white colonial settlers), his heavy voice flecked by drones and the rustling of foliage.

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

All of these examples point to the fact that Canada, as a settler society, has been a historically and remains a society where a narrow aged White male elite exercises full control over all the economic, legal, social, cultural, and political levers.

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i agree with michael that INM is a movement of our young people in telling our govrnments of the day that the treaties of our past and present leaders have to be look at with very open minds and eyes, if the treaties were to be put into action, we the aborigoinals would not need the govrnment hands out that are happening, in saying that if the day of govrnment were to give 2 % if the resoeuse share taken from the lands our treaties agreed to share with all the vistors to this before the treaties we signed by our past leader both aborigionals and white settlers that would amount to around 15billions dollar annaully so the INM is all getting the govrnment of the day to look with open minds@eyes into the treaties miigwetch