INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Council Of Three Fires, Great Lakes Region, Lake Simcoe

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Dr. Allan Downey

Document Summary

Indegnious nations and relations in the great lakes region. Ojibway, odawa, and potawatomi relations (all major confederacys) Indengious people fought with the three fires confederacy. Important because it shows ingienous peoples had politics well before settlers. It didn"t happen in one way or one time. First contacts do not include eurpoean settlers. Years before columbus came, they came in contact with people from the south, north etc. Contact through smallpox, even tho they never met a non indegneious person. Contact doesn"t have to be face to face. Situated wendake (geogian bay to lake simcoe and beyond) Clan mothers: head leaders of this group make big decisions. This confedecnry is composed of 5 nations. Because of the uprooting, there are new strategies of fighting back. They had to take on civil duties. Re-affranging power through the introduction of christianity and the patriarchy. Residential schools, forcing baptism, influencing men to be the leaders.