NATV 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egalitarianism, Whale Oil, Papal Bull

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Native Studies
• Course: NATV 1220
• Professor: Professor Dallas Hunt

Document Summary

Civilization: a purportedly advance stage of social development or organization. Features of indigenous civilizations: complex governments, egalitarianism, shared power, shifting, based in family and community. What happens in indigenous civilizations: rich cultural lives, vast trading networks, sporting events, leisure activities, complex senses of sexuality, gender, agricultural techniques. Huronia: alliance of four to six nations, agricultural specialists, vast military, dominated politically. People of the longhouse: five nations consist of seneca, cayuga, onondaga, oneida and mohawk which can also be called. Haudenosaunee: they made the belt of the haudenosaunee to remember when they buried their weapons and end the war to live in peace, women chose leaders. Seven generations principle: philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. Why contact the new lands: they explored because of curiosity, they trade because of riches, they conquest because of the land and power over the indigenous, they preached about christianity.