HIST 3838 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Beaver Club, Cockfight, Bull-Baiting
13 Jan 2016
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September 23: popular traditions of leisure and amateurism in the 19th century. Morrow & walmsley chapters 2-4 & rst half of chapter 9. Chapter 2: games and contests in early canada. Subartic is the homeland of the athapaskan peoples. The games of the people such as wrestling matches and the runnings of races, celebrated and enhanced strength, endurance and resistance to pain and served as a forum celebrated where groups shared their culture, ceremoniously when they met. Among the inuit, before missionaries and fur traders introduced the handshakes as a greeting between travellers, men wrestled. Visitors showed respect for their hosts by accepting challenges in boxing, wrestling or other painful contests like the arm pull or nger pull. Song, dances and contests such as the high kick or blanket toss also marked the gatherings among inuit groups. Such games were also the basis of education for children to prepare them for their lives on the land.
