KINE 3430 Lecture Notes - Lower Canada, Masculinity, Athabaskan Languages
30 Apr 2013
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Own personal experience, the way your body moves in space. From the outside looking in to see what the aboriginals were doing during their games. Wrestling (male), races, chase (hide and seek)/pain (cheek pull, bloody knuckles) /gambling games to celebrate, demonstrate, and develop life skills. Don"t need a lot of equipment for their games. They would only accumulate things that helped them survive, such as tools. They weren"t interested in collecting things for games. They didn"t waste their resources on fun, such as games. Altered by settlement, conquest, removal to reserves, and forced assimilation through residential schools (in school they were prevented from doing their traditional activities and required to do european activities) Cultures fragmented- sports and games were fragmented. Most of the entire textbook is talking about a small area of canada with regards to the aboriginals. The history of sport took place in upper canada (quebec) and lower canada (ontario) because the.
