Onlea - Indigenous Canada - University of Alberta

Indigenous Canada - University of Alberta

In this MOOC, you will explore issues important for understanding past and current relationships between Indigenous and settler societies in this primer on Indigenous Canada

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Brief

This course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.

Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.