blanket exercise pt 2
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- Woah
- As the script progresses, blankets are folded and made smaller, representing the results of the loss of land by treaty and newly legislated reserves.
- People are asked to step off their blankets, symbolizing disease, war, and extinction.
- As you can see, blankets are removed or moved to other areas, showing the way land was taken and peoples relocated.
- At the end of the exercise, only a handful of "survivors" are left standing on small squares of blankets, representing the small number of Indigenous people remaining on their traditional lands in Canada. In this case, it would be you.
- The exercise concludes with the participants discussing the experience in groups.
- Okay!
- I learned lots, for example how they were forced out of their homes and taken to a residential school, how non-Indigenous folk made their way into North America, and just what its like being an Indigenous person in this time.
- So, what did you learn?
- That's great!
- Yes, thank you for letting me come to the experience. It really emphasised my knowledge on Indigenous history.
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