HIS263Y1 Lecture : First Nations History to 1500
Document Summary
Time for 14500 years of human history in one hour! Now, we all know that the new world" means the americas, which is indicative of the. Eurocentric focus of history in canada indeed, until recently, canadian pre-1500 history was called pre-history, as if history only began when the europeans popped up to write about it, and was mostly left to archaeologists and anthropologists. Since 1982, aboriginal has a specific legal definition, so it won"t be used too much. Indian (first nations): status/non-status indian identifies people as being status/non- status under federal legislation, and in fact originally as wards under the crown" not properly adults, and therefore not eligible to vote until 1960 (yeah right. ) We think of it as applying to the indians in the far. North, and indeed the federal government didn"t even try to assert any authority over them until the 1930s.
