INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Few, Manitoba Act, Iroquois

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Allan Downey

Document Summary

October 14th, 2015: new worlds, new identities: the m tis. Grades for first paper out by the weekend. Instructions for the next assignment have been posted. Formation of a new sense of nationhood formation of a new nation between indigenous and non-indigenous groups. Lecture outline: metis communities, new identities, colonialism thrives on violence physical or mental, challenging the canadian myth of peaceful western expansion. New worlds, new identities: the metis: establishment of metis communities. Fur trade metis as the middle people between. European and indigenous communities come together indigenous women and non-indigenous men, creates a new local community regarding kinship links. Metis is a sense of identity and nationhood, nationhood as a psychological belonging: early 1800s beginning of collectivity and community in regards to metis identity. The pemmican war: lord selkirk and hbc, hbc and nwc rivalry, pemmican ban of 1814. French vs. english battling it out for fur trading grounds.