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UNMASKING THE REALITIES OF COLONIALISM IN THE WESTERN WORLD

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Remi J. DeRoo, Bishop of Victoria, British Columbia


1985

Very Useful
Report
Iñupiaq, Yup'ik, Athabascan, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian
Referenced by: Alaska Yukon Library

Grade Level(s): 4, 5, 6

Theme(s): ANCSA

Bishop DeRoo addressed the Alaska Native Review Commission's forum on The Place of Native Peoples in the Western World on "Some Initial Reflections from the Perspective of a Liberating Faith". He concludes ......"the colonized people themselves, in this case the native peoples, become defined as objects or commodities by the technical rationality that permeates the colonial ideology. The subjection of native peoples to a condition of welfare and dependency is a more recent illustration of the cultural conflict ,,,,,,,"

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Alaska Yukon Library
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