EDPE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Shield, Glooscap, Premarital Sex
10 Oct 2016
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Europeans judged aboriginals, but were shocked by how healthy they were, and how there were. The first nations of canada few social inequalities. Before 1960s, history textbooks began with the discovery of the new world by european explorers. Ethnohistorians: consider all available evidence to recreate the lives of the earliest inhabitants of what was to become canada. Difficult because myth and history tend to merge, can"t rely on stories that have been passed down. Arrived in canada between 30000 and 10000 years ago in various waves of migration. Europeans made contact with iroquoian speaking people in late 16th century. Religion regulated everyday life - belief in a divinity residing within all living creatures and natural objects. Animals and humans together and neither is superior. Native god of creation is sexless and created men and women at same time, while genesis has a male god who created a woman from the rib of first man.
