INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Cree Language, French Colonial Empire, Smallpox

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

September 28th, 2015: the skyworld indigenous spirituality and. Reminder: papers due before midnight on friday. European contact: happens at a critical point in the changing of, impact of shifting indigenous populations and technologies population movement. Spirituality and ceremonial life before contact: holism worldview and the connected world, ceremonies: Shaking tent and the grande: medicine society, new responses to dramatic change: missionaries. In the north winning trade loyalties were the biggest concern. Indigenous peoples central to assuring trade routes and policies in the hudson bay area. Jesuits brought in by 1611 to christianize" the. Indigenous peoples and make them loyal allies and make them more french-like" along with establishing preferential trading relationships. Acculturation programme focused on inter-racial marriage . Missionaries in the james bay region: christianity in omushkego (swampy cree) lands, hbc missionary policy. 1840 hbc governor simpson allows a mission society to establish an outpost in hbc territory. Methodists had little success and withdrew in: strategies for evangelization.