{"id":17632,"date":"2018-02-07T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17632"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:39","slug":"february-7-roundup-history-events-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/february-7-roundup-history-events-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"February 7 Roundup: History Events and Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n February 7 Roundup: History Events and Announcements\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Below are upcoming events as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TODAY: February 7, 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

History, Indigenous People and Genocide in Saskatchewan with Dr. Robert Alexander Innes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Indigenous Policy and Administration, and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies invite you to a talk taking place on Wednesday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m. in room 482 of the MacOdrum Library. This is an open public lecture with free admission. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither historians nor the Canadian government have acknowledged the existence of the genocide that occurred in the early 1880s in Treaty 4 territory that killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of First Nations and M\u00e9tis people. Many historians have detailed how the Canadian government implemented a starvation policy in the Cypress Hills as a means to exert control over the First Nations people in the region and force them to move to other regions. It is difficult to understand why historians have not categorized the deaths caused by the starvation policy as a genocide when they all have agreed that the government knew prior to cutting off food rations many people were dying of starvation and have all said that the policy killed a large number of people. Some historians may have been reluctant, as Andrew Woolford states, \u201cto impose a rigid Holocaust analogy onto the Canadian context.\u201d Some may not want to call it a genocide because, as James Daschuk mentioned in an interview, there is no way to determine the number of deaths that occurred exactly as a result of the starvation policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper will show that in fact there is a way to ascertain the number of deaths and that the procedure to determine the number is actually just straightforward history. In outlining the context of the genocide and detailing how one Saskatchewan First Nation determined how many of their band members died as a result, this paper asks, considering the number of historians who have looked at the starvation policy, why is it that none have done the work to determine the number of deaths the Canadian government caused from this policy and whether the actual number that were killed determines whether genocide occurred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Robert Alexander Innes is a member of Cowessess First Nation and an Associate Professor in the department to Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation<\/em> (University of Manitoba Press, 2013) and co-editor along with Kim Anderson of Indigenous Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration<\/em> (University of Manitoba Press, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, please email ZoeS.Todd@carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 8, 2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Documentary film screening and discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screening and discussion of the documentary film Home in a Foreign Land (Casa en Tierra Ajena)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join us this Thursday, February 8, 6pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

303 Paterson Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film explores the factors that lead to the forced migration of Central American migrants, their experiences of intense repression during their journeys, as well as the networks of solidarity and support that develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be joined by the film\u2019s producer, Dr. Carlos Sandoval Garc\u00eda, whose book \u201cExclusion and Forced Migration in Central America: No More Walls\u201d (Palgrave, 2017) inspired the film. Dr. Sandoval Garc\u00eda is a professor of communication studies at the University of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017\u20132018<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

History Department Brown Bag Occasions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The History Department invites you to a series of Brown Bag Occasions taking place in our History Lounge (433 Paterson), starting at 12:30. Bring your lunch and join us for any of the following talks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n