HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Iroquois, Beaver Wars, Nomic
9 Jun 2020
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Mourning wars are different than european wars obliteration or total destruction of the enemy. The nations of the iroquois confederacy, which waged much of this warfare for control of trade territories, were themselves devastated by the century-long struggle between. Britain and france for control of the fur trade in the great lakes region. The wendat people could not return and the shift in the style of warefare was observed. The great piece of montreal 1701- agreement that ended the hostility between the 2. Treaties was often in indigenous languages at the time. Overall, then, treaties emerged as a common mechanism for establishing political relationships between indigenous leaders and settlers to turtle island. Most canadians do not fully comprehend treaties neither their histories, nor their legal complexities, nor their relationship to the future of confederation. And frequently they overlook the fact that as citizens of a country that has regularly participated in treaty negotiations, they too are treaty people.
