First Nations In The 21st Century Chapter Summaries

The book First Nations in the Twenty-first Century by James S. Frideres deals with the peculiarities of life of Canadian aborigines from the perspective of the settlers, their connections with each other and all the controversies which appeared on this way. Frideres marks competently that writing a history includes many work to be done because a lot of information must be reconstructed, revised and reviewed, but in any case this history will have the author’s perspective intertwined in it. However, it is impossible to get “in the skin” of those whose history you are writing. I agree with the author that without being an aborigine from Canada, person does not have enough access to all the their hereditary and a newly written history will be more like the interpretation of the Aboriginal people’s life, rather than a true history. Many works dedicated to Canadian aborigines were written by Euro-Canadians, people of non-Aboriginal origin and using non-Aboriginal sources, that is why the perspective described there looks not very trustworthy because these elitists considered First Nations to be “primitive people headed for extinction”. I think that such treatment is unfair because those

My personal idea is that it is not the reason because the Indians are the source of true Canadian culture and the settlers were simply afraid of the influence these people might have on the development of the country. Their potential is huge, but they didn’t have enough power to promote their influence due to the rough encroachment of European civilization. Fortunately, the 21st century brought new understanding of the aborigines because treating them unfairly “threatens modernity, weakens the state, and reduces the social cohesion of the