HIS 2363 Lecture Notes - Cuthbert Grant, Fort Edmonton, North-West Rebellion
2 Dec 2013
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Only up to the first part of subject 11. Read first page and last page figure out what they are saying then read the middle to find evidence. Before the fur trade, there were no such thing as the m tis people. Why did they believe they had such a strong claim to the land, when the macdonald government was trying to annex the land. When whites arrived, plains indians were already using horses on the hunt, in warfare, and as beasts of burden. They either migrated or were brought back to north america wild, Culture was totally transformed because of the use of horses. Company agents married chiefs" daughters (cree, ojbway, saulteaux) Company man would go between groups and then would marry a daughter of one of the native chiefs. First generation would be half and half, half native and half of whatever other race (french, irish, scottish)
