HIS395H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Iroquois, Fokker E.Ii, European Colonialism
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One of the reasons that que didn"t separated from can was that indigenous had control over the northern regions of can and said that they would take the land if que separated, stopping them . How do we think of the land we inhabit: if this is our land, where are your stories? , place"s role in stories and the search for common ground , european discourse as story (ex. Chamberlain goes into an analysis of stories about canada told about law, European men planing crosses in the ground, stories of science and stories from the bible: all these stories according to him stood to jusify gov claim to the land but it was universal and not local xi. He pushes us to understand that stories from other cultures have just as much power and truth as any north american or european stories xii. Many stories denied or not given any authority xiii.
