HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Color Blindness, Social Darwinism, Smallpox
17 Feb 2013
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First nations comfort new comers monday september 24th 2012. Some historians say that when the euro"s arrived the way of life and everything of the first nation"s was destroyed. Alexander mackenzie arrived on the west coast as the first white man to arrive. Natives dominated the early trading networks demanded euro"s respect. Wanted to establish a metaphorical kinship referred to the euro"s as. They wanted euro"s to learn the language. European disease killed many aboriginals, became strong weapons: small pox, measles. European priests looked like strong shamans because they were immune to the diseases. The aboriginals took in the jesuits because it fit in under their social order (kinship) the exchange of people was accepted. Some of the jesuits tried to assume control- messing with the kin-ordered society. The english approached it by attacking the aboriginal way of life and forcing them to change their ways to become english protestant.
