SOC 2309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indigenous Peoples Of The Eastern Woodlands
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Soc2309a lecture 2 many myths are created (common across cultures) there are difference ways to interpret how we got here. Europeans weren"t the only people to visit north american. But the norse didn"t stay for too long. The beothuk also came to newfoundland at the beginning, no one new why there was suddenly so much disease the quest of the northwest passage: couldn"t happen for frobisher (frozen solid during the winter) Europeans were fascinated with beaver eventually the focus became on furs and hunting way more the first peoples were caught in the middle between the europeans issues (french, english, dutch etc) Mi"kmaq became quite proficient at negotiating that all ended when english and french decided to evaporate the previous deals there were no legal contracts of land, so the french/english claimed in un- der the name of the king. Huge facsination with clocks (clocks ruled the french people, they"re completely regimented)