ANTH 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Cultural Relativism, Ethnography
10 Mar 2014
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Important political alliances to trading that the natives viewed within the hudson bay co. 1800"s large quantities of alcohol coming into the north, natives with no experience with the substance partied too much and less fur was coming in. (alcohol had bad effects in the area, realized it was a bad idea) Wrote north america indian today (1943: mcilwraith- first anthropologist at the university of toronto, gave native people a real voice, hawthorn report - a survey of contemporary indians of canada (1966-67) Citizen"s plus recommendation: gave native peoples more rights than the average canadian citizen, james bay hydro-electric project (1975) Young natives could speak cree, french, and english and where part of the negotiations over the dams. Allowed for the dams but made buffer zones that the native people controlled in terms in hunting and fishing (about 25 species of animals executive to natives) Two parts of negotiations, part over land, part economic)
