INDG 2150

Students explore Indigenous Societies’ pre-colonial Family Structures and relationships to sexuality and draw upon the context of imperial destruction of the family unit through the Indian Act, Residential Schools, and the Sixties scoop. Moreover, students will observe the importance of childrearing in identity construction, community functions, harmony, and disharmony. Students will learn how the imperial systemic destruction targeted the family structure, and the ripples that we deal with now as a result in contemporary society. As such, students will begin to identify where many Indigenous communities still contend with imperialism and also have access to the traditional knowledge systems which form understandings of the family and childrearing.