NATV 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stone Age

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Native Studies
• Course: NATV 1200
• Professor: Shore

Document Summary

Frontier periphery: only a small portion of the wealth went to the frontier. Why don"t we consider first nations people to be civilized: cant of conquest: only europeans can be civilized. Civilized is mostly used in a negative way (you are not civilized: it"s a put down. Living environment decides the size of the group: the group closer to the resources will be bigger (ex. If there are buffalo close by) vs. living up in the north: ex) the mohawk had thousands of people living together in towns (they had farms)