HIST 2100 Chapter 1-15: Pre-Conf Canada Lectures
Document Summary
Main points: large and significant role of native people in the story of canada"s past, rich diversity and fluidity of pre-contact people, their adaptation to the environment. Cold hammered copper used as only metal: prior to contact: 500,000 natives lived in canada; half of them lived on bc coast and. In winter, nomadic groups of 25-30 in wigwams hunting moose, little explorer contact: eastern woodlands: the great lakes and st. lawrence, 2 linguistic groups, algonquin: migratory hunting and fishing ojibawa. Iroquois: huron, iroquois confederacy, more settled with introduction of beans and corn around 500 ad. Palisaded longhouses -> attacked by other native groups for property, lived in settlements of hundreds: arctic: last settled due to ice, natives came from alaska, lived in areas where they knew there was seal, caribou and other game. Nomadic: rich diversity and fluidity in pre-contact society -> canadian history began with wholly mammoth, classification and adaptation to environment.
