Todays News
Sept 21st
Today we talked about the social structures of first nations communities we talked about their extended families, clans, community size, gender roles, elders, education, justice and conflicts.
Extended families
They had their whole families children grandparents aunts and uncles and their cousins they all worked together to survive.
Clans
These clans all shared a common ancestor or banded together because of geography sometimes these clans followed their paternal line or maternal line.
Community size
Their community sizes were based on how many resources they had. This sometimes changed during seasons, in summer they would band together and work together to hunt bison. during the winter they would splinter into smaller groups so that the land could sustain them.
Gender Roles
In their communities women would traditionally organize who did what. They also prepared the game the men brought back they would plant and harvest crops.
Men would traditionally hunt for food in large groups and would defend their tribes. The men would handle most diplomatic functions for their tribe.
Although these roles were really flexible they mostly stayed in the traditional roles.
Elders
An elder was someone who was recognized for having great wisdom and knowledge. An elder did not have to be Elderly but mostly they were . Man or woman it only mattered for their experience, mostly natural leaders. These people were greatly respected and many people seeked their counsel.
Education
Children learned by doing things in the community and the education was very informal. It was more just a kid wandered around and tried many different things like cooking and if they didnt like it then they would go and try something else. Everyone was expected to know their tribes history, spiritual ideas and practical skills, like fire building and survival.
Justice and Conflict
Their justice system was more based around rehabilitation instead of punishment. When someone killed another then they would often speak to the elders so they could determine what part of their being was out of balance. Sometimes those that killed were sent to solitary to think on why they killed. Stealing was mostly unheard of because everthing was shared instead of owned by a person. All of these decisions were made for the best outcome for the community. Murder was such a serious crime that it was seen as the responsibility of the whole community.
These websites have some good info
Education
Children learned by doing things in the community and the education was very informal. It was more just a kid wandered around and tried many different things like cooking and if they didnt like it then they would go and try something else. Everyone was expected to know their tribes history, spiritual ideas and practical skills, like fire building and survival.
Justice and Conflict
Their justice system was more based around rehabilitation instead of punishment. When someone killed another then they would often speak to the elders so they could determine what part of their being was out of balance. Sometimes those that killed were sent to solitary to think on why they killed. Stealing was mostly unheard of because everthing was shared instead of owned by a person. All of these decisions were made for the best outcome for the community. Murder was such a serious crime that it was seen as the responsibility of the whole community.
These websites have some good info
https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307460755710/1307460872523
The beginning of this website is good
https://wearecanadians.wordpress.com/category/canadian-history/first-nations-relations/
http://www.umanitoba.ca/architecture/cp/app/sections/issues/other/housing/traditional_housing.html
The beginning of this website is good
https://wearecanadians.wordpress.com/category/canadian-history/first-nations-relations/
http://www.umanitoba.ca/architecture/cp/app/sections/issues/other/housing/traditional_housing.html
Hey John great blog! It thought you did a super good job on this, it gave me a lot of information that would probably help me out since I’m not that good at history. You provided a lot of great information that is probably super helpful for anyone. I thought you did very well discribing all of the areas of the First Nations. I really liked the Justice and conflict system it’s very interesting and good to know that they had chose a rehabilitation side to the conflict and Justice system instead of a punishment system, and how no one would steal since everything was shared. I thought you did a good job on the elders part but my question is how did the elders help the clan out? Did they teach or even do other stuff? Because I’d want to know how they were recognizing for having great wisdom and knowledge. Is there any information you could’ve put about the youth of the clan? Like how did they contribute to the clan? I feel like that would be something interesting to look into. For the education part of your blog would there be specific people helping the youth for there education or the youth would just ask around? What I would’ve liked to see was maybe how other clans would be with each other like if they’d help each other. I really like how you did the gender roles, I really like how there roles can be really flexible unlike the europeans. Aside from everything I thought this was perfectly done and hopefully will help people in the future cause it sure helped me, it will for sure help in the future for studying for tests of even exams!
ReplyDeleteRadisson is clearly a smart man. He took two ships to James Bay and took Fort Nelson from the English. Radisson sees an opportunity to make money as an entrepreneur but he also demonstrated that he has an analytical mind that can lead people. Our textbook tells us how Radisson helped Hudsons Bay Company traded furs from the First Nations People in return they were provided with supplies such as forks, knives, tobacco, tea and ammunition as stated on page 78 and 79 of our textbook.
ReplyDeleteRadisson and Des Groseilliers were of similar mind set. They both liked to lead people, sail boats and were French explorers or coureurs as mentioned in our notes called “The Hudsons Bay Company”. The Hudsons Bay Company still exists today. They eliminated their competion “The NorthWest Company”.
The Hudsons Bay Company has had a big impact on Northern Canada. People still buy necessities from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Before the elimination of the Hudsons Bay Company there was violence between the two. People died because they were fighting over power. Red River settlers were clashing with Metis who supported the NorthWest Company (notes Hudson’s Bay Compay). I believe Radisson would have joined whoever came out victorious.
The ship “The Nonsuch” was a main exploring ship for Radisson. It is cool that a replica is located in our province at the Man and Nature Museum in Winnipeg.
BY: KEENAN
Wow this was great John, there was a lot of grate information to help us study for weekly quizzes or even the exam I really liked the education, Justice and conflict system how you explained it, i liked the education system because the kids could do what they wanted to do and it was picked for them and it good to know that they tried to rehabilitate the criminals instead of punishing them, and how there was no point for them to steal since everything was shared and in the other areas you did great. I thought this was perfectly done and hopefully will help people in the future cause it sure helped me, it will for sure help in the future for studying for tests of even exams
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