SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indian Act, Sixties Scoop
12 Apr 2018
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Because of this lifestyle they weren"t hung up on material goods: kin-ordered societies communities that were made up of extended families. These societies practiced infanticide and contraception as a means of population control. Hunters (men) vs gatherers (women: hunting seen as dangerous. To preserve the legacy of the community, hunting was assigned to males. When a women died, it was seen as the death of a generation and the community. 35% of the community resources and food was from hunting, 65% came from the gathering of women. When a hunt was successful, the man handed the game to the wives to decide what to do with it. When he arrives he creates the 3 settlements: trois riveres, quebec city, montreal. The rst settlers had no intentions to settle, but ended settling. These very rst men abandoned their partners and families back home in europe and settling for marriages with indigenous women which results in metis children: filles du rois (1663-1673)
