The Hudson's Bay Source Analysis

The general issue of the source is how the citizens are not the only ones who lost their country. Additionally, the source also addresses the issue of segregation Aboriginal people experienced from Canadian society and its civic nation. The source highlights how citizens are unable to recognize that Aboriginal people already lost their country. As a result of The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Canadian government taking away their land. The citizen reading the newspaper represents Canadian society and exhibits Canada to be ethnocentric towards Aboriginal culture. The type of nationalism reflected upon the source is civic nationalism. As the source advocates that Aboriginals share a sense of belonging with the citizens, since they had land taken …show more content…
Moreover, the artist only drew two Aboriginal people living in the reserve, which reflects upon the isolation that they feel from Canadian society. The artist’s motive is to show the irony that occurs in the comic. The dialogue in the first panel claims that the foreigners took over the Hudson’s Bay Company. Although, in reality, the Hudson’s Bay Company derived Aboriginal people’s lands through numbered treaties. Furthermore, the Hudson’s Bay also displaced Aboriginal people to futile land, where they were unable to practice their culture. Hence the irony that the citizens and the Hudson’s Bay lost the country to foreigners, when the Aboriginal peoples lost their land from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The intended audience of the source would be Canadians so that they are able to perceive the loss Aboriginal people experienced from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The supporters of the source would agree that Aboriginal people do not belong in the vision of Canada. They would also believe that Canada is a product of two founding nations. They would fail to recognize that Aboriginal peoples owned the land, and are also a component of Canada’s founding