APA 2302 Lecture 19: Metis Nation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2302
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Indigenous communities indigenous communities who survived epidemics formed new communities cultural transfer of local games within new communities. Games and sports are still dependent on equipment material available and the physical environment. Games focused on preparing for work, war, harvest. Although there was little leisure time, many metis sports and games of skill developed out of everyday survival skills: sharp-shooting, wrestling, running, horse races. *these honed skills essential for hunting, defending the community or working in the fur trade. Metis had a special relationship with their horses, riders performed acrobatic feats on horseback, they held competitions in which they would pick an object up off the ground while riding at full gallop. Sport development in the colonial period 1800s this occurred during 17th-18th century. People had little leisure time or opportunity to engage in sports and games factors restricting sport participation: time and energy spent on basic survival tasks for settlers it was a difficult adaptation.