[HIST 124] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (39 pages long)
1 Dec 2016
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Kingston and queen"s sit on the traditional lands of the anishinaabe and haudenosaunee (iroquois) peoples. We assign first nations culture to the past. First nations issue-land claims, residential schools are front and centre in our political present. In the us debate about the washington redskins. We can"t understand their issues today unless we have some appreciation for their history. Midpoint in 15th cen there was one hundred million of them. They controlled production of major exports to european traders. Think of canadian history 1604-talk about new france. 1663-only about 3000 french people in canada over 125,000 just in immediate vicinity. First nations culture there are so many, so diverse, so many different cultures. The social formation in which aboriginals live is remarkably different from our own. Social formation: short hand way to describe the components of society. Allows us to compare and contrast different types of social formations. How, when and why we move from on social formation to another.
