Hello everybody! My name is Megan Cameron, I am currently in my fourth year as an English major at UBCO.I have always loved literature and reading for as long as I can remember so it seemed only fit to pursue a degree in English. This is my second semester doing only distance education courses as I just had my son in October of last year. Though I am not very technologically advanced I am excited to be using a blog style learning environment in hopes that at the end of the course having all of the information I have studied and my peers have contributed in one space will help me not only retain the information better but also get to virtually know everyone else in the class better (as I did not know anyone in my last semester of online classes). After going through the syllabus and the class blog I am excited to get to know more information surrounding settlers and the indigenous peoples of Canada through literature and class discussion. I am also looking forward to learning more about the difficult topics surrounding indigenous peoples and the Canadian government throughout history. I think that by using stories and other forms of literature to learn about our history as a country is one of the best ways to gain a better understanding of some of the historical moments because of the way different authors can express what is going on around them. This course surrounds itself with stories, how we as readers interpret them, which stories we hear more often and the impact they have on the people of our country. The relationship between stories and literature will be developed throughout the duration of this course and will better our understandings as students.
Works Cited:
Department of Justice Canada. “PRINCIPLES Respecting the Government of Canada’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples” https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/principles.pdf
“Cupids, Newfoundland: Canada’s First English Settlement.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadas-first-english-settlement-feature
Cameron, Trevor. “Okanagan Sunset”
Hello Megan,
Thank you for this introduction, excellent. I took a look at your links, thank you. I want to share a link from an excellent source about the Beothuk peoples, the First Peoples to live on what we call Newfoundland: https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/aboriginal-peoples-the-beothuk-and-how-european-contact-led-to-their-extinction
This is a short, succinct story that will enlighten your reading about the first colonizers in Newfoundland. I am looking forward to working together. Erika
One more note Megan on capitalizing the word “Indigenous” – just like the word Canadian, American and so forth. The fact that many people are confused about capitalizing a proper noun (a name) is reflective of “the stories we have listened to and a phenomenon that needs to be examined in 2020.We will discuss this and the power of words to oppress much more. Thank you.