INDG 200- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)

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Creations stories and indigenous societies on their own terms. Indigenous people (larger group); nations (i. e. tribes, e. g. Indigenous people (larger group); nations (i. e. tribes, e. g. dakelh); first nations (status/non-status), m tis, inuit. First nations have/ may not have relationship w/ can. Critical to not view indigenous people as one homogenous group; different languages, Inuit = northern part of the continent, n. on, qc, yukon, nunavut, nwt cultures, governance structures, different traditions etc. Haudenosaunee + blackfoot creation stories very similar. Blackfoot confederacy (napi and the great flood) Under haudenosaunee governance structure, first council held by animals. Creation stories have significant impact on gender relations. Creation stories/ indigenous oral history does not have to line up with archeological evidence, science is often trying to catch up with oral history. Oral history/ epistemology used to add compliment to science/ teach indigenous peoples about their history. Oral histories are ancient; deeply moral (not in a traditional euro way)

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