February 13th, 2020 
Link to video
https://vimeopro.com/octapixx/foxtel-3/video/54811286
OPEN “the dispossession of the First Nations” first , and follow this
After watching the documentary film and reading McDonnell carefully, discuss the centrality of land allotment in the policy of assimilation of Indigenous Nations into white culture and the propagation of capitalism, an economic system that is based on private individual property, as opposed to communal property (i.e. land owned by a group, instead of particular individuals, as is the case with Indigenous peoples).
In your answer, stay focused on the centrality of land in the preservation of Indigenous culture. In other words, Indigenous cultures, in particular, their economic systems and spirituality, are very much tied to the land: when Indigenous nations are dispossessed from their land, their cultural identity is jeopardized, due to the interruption of certain ancestral practices.
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