HISTORY 2TT3 : Fall 2010
27 Sep 2011
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Ways of knowing: the way cultures understand the world. Stories and myths that contain clues of how one is suppose to act. Conflict with each other = recognize and learn or suppress. When europeans and north americans came into contact both cultures were very confident. Mi"kmaq: origin story learns from the earth and the environment. Political and cultural alliance to end war. The peacemaker huron who went elsewhere because hurons rejected message of peace. Condolence ceremony: warfare = cycle = death grief replace dead. Wampum belts: depicted agreement that had been symbolically made. Longhouse dwelling place of iroquois symbolic of anything that brings people together like leagues. Great law that governed confederacy was never written down. What we know about pre-contact history came from oral traditions wasn"t recognized for a long time because it was believed that history wasn"t history until it was written down. Ethno history: combines anthropology and history to get proud understanding of aboriginals.
