SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gong, American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions, Reviers

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 605
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

History of families in canada: pre-colonial indigenous families, indigenous families after colonization, early frontier familier (french + british settler families, class + family economies, family + artisanal, industrial working class, middle class. History of families in canada: pre-colonial indigenous families: Foraging: economic organization, foraged food for survival, went place to place to look for it, followed seasons and hunted. not farming, worshipped mother nature. Nature, animals, humans, intrinsically linked together, all come from the earth (mother nature) From economic arrangements come political and social arrangements. Women had decision making power, females appointed male chief, had power over him, if they didn"t like him they stripped him of their title. Hunting 35% gathering 65% % of what the community ate, when hunting was successful they celebrated, they sent the produce to women, equivalent to handing your paycheck and access to bank account (remendous social and economicpower) No violence in communities (unlike through colonialism: indigenous families after colonization.