Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Friday, December 08, 2017
november blog
November blog post american perspective
this blog is about the American perspective on the war of 1812. in class we learn about how during the war of 1812 how we "Canada" needed to win and how much better we are then them. it seems as we are taught that we were right but the Americans were just doing the same, trying to find a trading route, and land. schools in America are probably taught about how they were right.
American traders wanted to trade but had problems with Britain so to solve there problems they were going to fight the closest thing, which being Canada. America lost they fight. Britain was also fighting the Napoleonic wars, while also battling with the Americans in the new world. the Americans weren't just fighting British since they wanted land they were fighting the First Nations as well. remember when i said Americans are taught different they are taught they fought with British not Canada. but makes sense because Canada was mostly British and First nations. they are also taught it was fought on American soil. but both countries teach that they were they won and that they were right.
Reference:
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/american-perspective/
this blog is about the American perspective on the war of 1812. in class we learn about how during the war of 1812 how we "Canada" needed to win and how much better we are then them. it seems as we are taught that we were right but the Americans were just doing the same, trying to find a trading route, and land. schools in America are probably taught about how they were right.
American traders wanted to trade but had problems with Britain so to solve there problems they were going to fight the closest thing, which being Canada. America lost they fight. Britain was also fighting the Napoleonic wars, while also battling with the Americans in the new world. the Americans weren't just fighting British since they wanted land they were fighting the First Nations as well. remember when i said Americans are taught different they are taught they fought with British not Canada. but makes sense because Canada was mostly British and First nations. they are also taught it was fought on American soil. but both countries teach that they were they won and that they were right.
Reference:
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/american-perspective/
Friday, December 01, 2017
In another persons shoes. Nov blog post
In todays blog post I'm am going to be talking about the event at Seven Oaks. On June, 1816 there was a bloody battle between the HBC and the NWC. In 1814 Miles MacDonnell governor of the red river colony, he issued the pemmican proclamation which banned the HBC from selling pemmican to anyone who was outside of the region, this was because of they didn't have much food to support there own people. The NWC company didn't like this because they valued the pemmican because of its high protein content. IN 1816 a group of mainly metis which included some French-Canadians and English led by Cuthbert grant. They stole some pemmican to sell though the NWC they encountered a small group of HBC settler along the red river at seven oaks a gun fight broke out between the two groups. Early reports suggested that the French fired the first shot at the HBC. the Metis were very good shots and they have a lot more people then the HBC by around three times as many men. one that day 22 HBC men were killed and one First nations Person. Since then everyone has been debating whether you would called this even either a battle, massacre or incident.
A man by the man of Coltman portrayed the event as a battle. I think this because the metis didn't fire the first shot. IF they were planning on massacring them they would've shot them. I thing it was portrayed as a massacre throughout history because it was such a one-sided for the Metis. This also could be used as propaganda against the Metis so they can make a lot of people not like them. When you would say massacre pretty much everyone would think of a big bloody battle wit heavy casualties on one side and a significantly less on the other side. But for a battle you'd think it be more one sided and more planned out and formal. What I think is that it was an incident like the one HBC guy had a miss fire killing one and then the Metis killed them all.
How I think each of these groups would have portrayed this event are for the Metis they call it and incient because only one of them died in this battle. But for the HBC they could use the word massacre for make the metis sound bad, they could say that they were ambushed after they stole there pemmican from them.
This is a painting by a C.W. Jerfferys about the event at seven oaks. From what I think telling from his name he was a British man most likely, and how he portrayed this event in his art was in favoring the HBC. he used art to make the metis seem like "savages" and very intimidating which could influence people on there thoughts about what they think about them. This would for the most part make people scared or distrustful of them because they "massacred" there people who didn't stand a chance against them. HE mad them see more scary because there were massive numbers of them and they look like there a lot bigger then the HBC and it doesn't show many of them injured. But for the HBC there are all huddled in a small group, there are not even close to the same amount as there was for the metis, an there all crouching making them appear small compared to the towering metis men.
Links: picture https://www.bing.com/images/searchview=detailV2&ccid=pnVa2ACY&id=A518ECD4365CBA8ED14D112C6164B8098DC3FEEA&thid=OIP.pnVa2ACYfjO3A5HmhjUwmgEsC1&q=seven+oaks+massacre+painting&simid=608046738274189745&selectedIndex=2&ajaxhist=0
Info: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seven-oaks-incident/
A man by the man of Coltman portrayed the event as a battle. I think this because the metis didn't fire the first shot. IF they were planning on massacring them they would've shot them. I thing it was portrayed as a massacre throughout history because it was such a one-sided for the Metis. This also could be used as propaganda against the Metis so they can make a lot of people not like them. When you would say massacre pretty much everyone would think of a big bloody battle wit heavy casualties on one side and a significantly less on the other side. But for a battle you'd think it be more one sided and more planned out and formal. What I think is that it was an incident like the one HBC guy had a miss fire killing one and then the Metis killed them all.
How I think each of these groups would have portrayed this event are for the Metis they call it and incient because only one of them died in this battle. But for the HBC they could use the word massacre for make the metis sound bad, they could say that they were ambushed after they stole there pemmican from them.
This is a painting by a C.W. Jerfferys about the event at seven oaks. From what I think telling from his name he was a British man most likely, and how he portrayed this event in his art was in favoring the HBC. he used art to make the metis seem like "savages" and very intimidating which could influence people on there thoughts about what they think about them. This would for the most part make people scared or distrustful of them because they "massacred" there people who didn't stand a chance against them. HE mad them see more scary because there were massive numbers of them and they look like there a lot bigger then the HBC and it doesn't show many of them injured. But for the HBC there are all huddled in a small group, there are not even close to the same amount as there was for the metis, an there all crouching making them appear small compared to the towering metis men.
Links: picture https://www.bing.com/images/searchview=detailV2&ccid=pnVa2ACY&id=A518ECD4365CBA8ED14D112C6164B8098DC3FEEA&thid=OIP.pnVa2ACYfjO3A5HmhjUwmgEsC1&q=seven+oaks+massacre+painting&simid=608046738274189745&selectedIndex=2&ajaxhist=0
Info: http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seven-oaks-incident/
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