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Aboriginal Governance: Emerging Directions Tutorial Reading 1

Dickason, Olive Patricia (2006) A concise history of Canada’s first nations. Toronto: Oxford

University Press

Chapter Three: On the Eastern Edge of the Mainland

Chapter Four: Huron, Five Nations and Europeans

Important Names and Terms to make rough notes on (identify and or define)

Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Odanak

Comagnie des Cent Associes sagamore Donnacona

Stadacona Hochelaga Tadoussac

King Philip’s War Treaty of Boston Nescambiouit

Treaty of Utrecht

Jean de Brebeuf Hudson’s Bay Company Council of Three Fires

Jesuits coureurs de bois Matonabbee

‘custom of the country’ pays d’en haut Samuel Hearne

Tessouat homeguards Thanadelthur

Discussion Questions

1. Why and when did Cartier take Donnacona and his sons to France? What happens to these three Iroquois men upon their return to Stadacona while with Cartier on his second voyage to Canada? How does his third and last voyage to Canada fare?

2. What happens to the Stadaconans? Include time frames.

3. Who are the Innu? How did they get along with the Mi’kmaq and the Iroquois? Include time frames. How did their first meeting with Champlain go?

4. Describe the Montagnais early control over the fur trade in the early 1600s. What types of things happen between the French and the Innu that turns sour? Who benefits from this shift? Who eventually replace the Montagnais in the fur trade?

5. How were the Mi’kmaq people involved in the trade? Who are they aligned with? According to the French who owns the land? How did the Mi’kmaq view this?

6. How do the Mi’kmaq deal with the French English dynamics? In the end, how do they prosper?

7. Who are the People of the Sunrise and what role do they play in the trade? What are they busy doing during the mid 1600s?

8. What was the French policy toward the Amerindians throughout the history of New France?

9. What happens to the Abenaki in the 1720s?

10. Who are the People of the Rock and how does their meeting with Champlain at Quebec in 1609 change Canada’s history?

11. Who are the Jesuits and what are their goals and methods in dealing with the Amerindians?

12. Describe the tenuous relationship between the French and the Amerindians and the notion of sovereignty.

13. How do the French impact the Amerindians’ relations with each other in the early 1600s? How does the French Huron alliance affect the fur trade?

14. Who do the Iroquois (Five Nations) establish trade with? What happens in 1624 and how long term does that prove to be? What role do the Iroquois play in the French fur trade at this time?

15. How do the Iroquois impact the Huron in the mid 1600s? How does this affect the French? How does this affect the Amerindians?

16. How is the Hudson’s Bay Company established? How are the Europeans and the Amerindians mutually benefiting at this time?

17. Describe the role of women among the Amerindian and the fur trade.

18. How do the Amerindians capitalize on the English French relations?

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