HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Thomas Button, Peguis, Ethnogenesis
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Hist 202 survey: canada to 1867 (november 21st 2011) This area is a series of native homelands. Assiniboine natives believed that lake winnipeg is the center of their world. Sends birds under the water to look for some earth for which they. Ik-tomi ends them onto a great body of water on oyster shells can settle. Birds come up short with no mud on their claws, and so some fur animals are sent down. They come up dead but with mud on their feet. Mud is used to create the earth; the land in which the world will survive. Lake winnipeg is the center of their universe; sacred waters in which everything begins. A reminder that we can have creation stories for all native groups in the area. Natives think of this as the place where humanity springs. Everything happens in units of 7 in this story. These are the resource that allows buffalo"s existence.