[AIW] Reminder: VCS Online Seminar: First Nations of North-Eastern Canada

[AIW - Bartl]

Virtual Canadian Studies (VCS) [Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS) /
Association of Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries / L'association
d' études canadiennes dans les pays de langue allemande]

 

Native Studies: First Nations of North-Eastern Canada

[October 24, 2011 - February 20, 2012]

 

Webpage:
<http://www.kanada-studien.org/angebote-fur-studierende/virtual-canadian-stu
dies/>
http://www.kanada-studien.org/angebote-fur-studierende/virtual-canadian-stud
ies/

Flyer:
http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/VCS-Flyer_WS_2011.p
df 

 

The aim of this course is to give an overview of the First and Inuit Nations
of North-Eastern Canada (Labrador, Québec, Ontario, and Manitoba) - their
culture, their present activities for survival and revival, and their
relationship with Canadian and Provincial Governments.

 

Mainly based on the Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 5: Arctic /
Vol. 6: Subarctic / Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations / Vol. 2:
Indians in Contemporary Society / Vol. 3: Environment, Origin, and
Population) the following Nations with their tribal subgroups will be
discussed: Inuit of Quebec and Labrador Coast, Innu (Montagnais, Naskapi),
Cree, Attikamek, Ojibwa, Chipewayan, Salteaux.

 

Further topics of the course are:

·         Canadian, French and British Indian Policy (Indian Treaties,
Indian Act, Native Rights, Land Claims)

·         Ecology, Economy (Fur Trade, Hudson Bay Company)

·         Religion (Roman Catholic Mission in New France)

·         Survival and Revival (e.g. residential schools, Native
governments, reserves)

 

Fee: 25 EUR (outside Euro-Zone: 35 EUR)

 

Registration Deadline: October 17, 2011

 

Course begins: October 24, 2011

 

Online Chat Sessions: Mondays 10.00 – 12.00 am MET

2011: 24.10. / 07.11. / 21.11. / 05.12. / 19.12.

2012: 09.01. / 23.01. / 06.02. / 20.02.

 

Online lecturer: Renate Bartl, MA, Munich/Germany
(bartl at american-indian-workshop.org)

 

Registration: Annekatrin Metz (metzanne at uni-trier.de)

 

Registration Information:
<http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Registration.pdf>
http://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Registration.pdf

 

(Participants will get a certificate of participation from the Association
of Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries at the end of the course.
For ECTS please ask your supervising tutor.)

 

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