HIST 2Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pemmican, Concubinage, Yellow Fever
14 Apr 2014
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Hist 2q93 lecture 2: pre- and post-contact indigenous societies: background, women"s roles in creation myths, women"s work and gendered divisions of labour, women"s authority in aborignal societies, post-contact changes to power and authority among aboriginal women, profile: pocahontas. Prior to european contact when groups of colonies came to north america. Cultures developed over time based on land, climate, water ways. 12 separate language families in canada prior to european contact. Amongst these families there were individual languages spoken. In us 200,000 languages in use prior to contact. By the 15th and 16th century european travellors stumbled upon north america. They claimed it was uninhabited, when really aboriginal people were living there for thousands of years. They saw an economy in north america off timber, fur, fish. As word spread in europe and the land of possibilities, groups of wannabe colonies left on ships to head to north america.
