ANT241Y5 Lecture Notes - Franz Boas, Francis Parkman, Biological Anthropology
Document Summary
Images of indians in canadian and american history. John cabot plays little role since he had little contact with the indigenous people: this period ends with the establishment of a royal government in new france in 1663. Europeans over the aboriginals: europeans get far too much attention in history in proportion to their actual population in this period. He went down the st. laurence and founded france: he drew maps with considerable ethnographic detail- where people are located in connection to the environment. Were different from other religion organizations whose missionaries goals were to go in to the community bring them out of their ways and convert them to their religion. Jesuits h/o believed that the only way to convert the indigenous pop. was to live with the indigenous people, learn their language, create dictionaries, translate christian text. They were known as martyrs b/c they were often tortured and burned.