INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Glooscap, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes Region
26 Apr 2016
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3 reasons for early contact: overseas trade, attempts to find a route to asia, rising interest in the fur trade (something which is marked by the presence of jacques cartier) 4 kinds of interactions: fish, fur, exploration, religious (encounters with jesuits in and through their christianizing mission) Transfer of spiritual powers from one to another. The exchanges are essential for maintaining good alliances. Bring some kind of offering to exchange, had to be renewed and continue gifting. Trading was not kind in the middle east. Need to understand colonialism as a trade based colonialism. If we are dependent on you but you are not dependent on us, we can survive with you and it is not fair to us. The relationship did create a system of dependence for the people. Depopulation of entire regions of fur-bearing animals. As a way to replenish population base- adoption of captives. A lot of colonies were being destroyed or weakened by disease.
