APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Lower Canada, Beaver Club

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

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First nations were the earliest players in canada. First games were physical and gambling games, skill development, subsistence technique, confrontational competition organized around survival. Native cultures were divided into 6: north pacific, plateau, plains, subartic *home of athapaskans or dene, arctic, eastern woodlands. Games of dene and inuit: wrestling, running races celebrated strength, endurance, resistance to pain. Hawk"s feet denoted speed and power be low equipment. Games were a greeting, showed respect to hosts, education for children. Women played mooseskin ball to prepare them to move camp, games had to. Shinny was played by northwest aboriginals, precursor to ice hockey, prepared men for war/combat. Lacrosse was the most important aboriginal game played in 3 regions: northeast 5 nations, great lakes, south east usa. Samuel de champlain stabilized the fur trade and alliances with algonquians in new france. He ordered hunting, fishing, cultural drinking to combat ravages of new.