HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stone Age, Thule People, Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands
17 Oct 2016
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Large and significant role of native people in the story of canada"s past. Rich diversity and fluidity of pre-contact people. Overview of societal change in the pre-contact era. Material evidence: problems: survived mainly by sedentary aboriginal groups not representative of aboriginals as a whole, many were nomadic peoples/migratory. Also how many has story changed as it"s been handed down through generations. Written evidence: at contact not beforehand, written by european explorers, few euro explorers were willing to study them also very biased, explorers primarily came during summer aboriginal people lived very differently during summer & winter. Many native tribes believe they"ve been here since the beginning of time. Scholars believe they may have been the original migrants from asia, over the land bridge from siberia 10,000 bc. 10,000 bc (known) because of fluted points used for hunting. Overview of change in the pre-contact era: fluidity. Glaciers retreated = life changing constantly for the aboriginals.
