HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stephen Leacock, Clovis Culture, Coastal Migration
10 Oct 2018
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Imagine you are in a canadian history survey 50 years ago. Imagine what your clothes are, what your professor looks like. Asking the question of when canadian history has begun. Which has changed rapidly over the last even 20 years. 50 years ago we would have begun discussing when the europeans arrived. Reference: 1940s textbook (stephen leacock: first chapter: the empty continent . There is numerous evidence in oral tradition and archeology that prove it was inhabited prior to european arrival. Still from the exhibits in the canadian museum of history the creation story of the. Anishinaabe: the otter travels through the flooded water to retrieve a handful of dirt to be placed on the back of a turtle thusly creating turtle island. They"ve been walking for quite some time, and every once in a while they can see through the clouds to find lush greenery, and animals, but they have no way to reach it, and continue their journey.
