FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indian Act, Public Sphere, Private Sphere

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Social, historical and economic perspectives on the canadian family. Canada"s human history began about 10,000 years ago settling of native peoples in the yukon. Ways of living were both migratory and sedentary and depended on hunting and gathering as means of subsistence. Developed distinct economies, oral cultures, art forms and philosophies. Native groups valued the family as the fundamental unit of community. Family life characterised by interdependency, multiple obligation, and extensive kinship networks. Women and men lived in separated but reciprocal worlds. Women bore and reared children; managed household; prepared food; and did most of the agricultural work. Men hunted large game; fished; were responsible for warfare councils, religion and politics. By the 1500"s agriculture had replaced hunting and gathering in the south. Creation of large farming, plant gathering and the domestication of animals. New practices required a much more sedentary existence. Reliability of food supply increased population set the stage for more complex social and political arrangements:

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