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First Contact

First Contact. Hon. James Richardson (Canada’s Minister of Defence). Chief George Manuel (Leader of the National Indian Brotherhood).

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First Contact

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  1. First Contact

  2. Hon. James Richardson(Canada’s Minister of Defence)

  3. Chief George Manuel(Leader of the National Indian Brotherhood)

  4. TermsEgalitarian : in referring to a system of government it is one in which the interests of the group take priority over those of the individual. This form of governing was practiced by the Native peoples of North America.Assimilation is the act of making a minority group of people assume the customs and traditions of a larger group.Residential Schools – Boarding schools operated or funded by agencies such as churches and the federal government intended to assimilate Aboriginal children.Coureurs de bois: young French men whose love for adventure led them to become the middlemen of the fur trade in New France. They would travel to fur laden regions to trade with the Aboriginals then take the furs back to the trading post.

  5. Métis – a person of mixed First Nation and European descent.Wendat is the name of a native confederacy living in southern Ontario. (Huron)The people of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois Confederacy, call themselves the Haudenosaunee (meaning People Building a Long House).The Recollets and Jesuits were French missionaries and preachers who arrived in New France to assimilate the Aboriginal peoples by having them embrace the Catholic faith.CE – the Common EraEthnocentrism – the point of view that one’s culture is superior to that of another

  6. L’Anse aux Meadows The earliest known European contact with Aboriginal peoples in the Americas occurred at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, when Norse (Viking) explorers landed around 1000 years BP. Apparently that contact was not harmonious and there is little evidence that aboriginal peoples adopted any technology from this temporary contact. http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_E.asp

  7. The reconstructions of three Norse buildings are the focal point of this archaeological site, the earliest known European settlement in the New World. The archaeological remains at the site were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Exhibits highlight the Viking lifestyle, artifacts, and the archaeological discovery of the site.

  8. July 1/2000: This will be a familiarsight for anyone who visits our region this summer - The Summer of The Vikings! The UN World Heritage Site at L'Anse aux Meadows is North America's only authenticated Viking archaeological site and offers a unique glimpse of what life was like for the first European arrivals to North America in 1000 A.D. (Show Viking’s video clip)

  9. Birgitta Wallace

  10. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)

  11. The Matthew (show video clips) #1 - http://www.biography.com/people/john-cabot-9234057 #2 – Historic Minute from memory stick

  12. Jacques Cartier (Show video clip) http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004499

  13. SamueldeChamplain

  14. Champlain, the Cartographer He [a seaman] should know how to make charts, so as to be able to recognize accurately the lie of the coast, the entrances to ports, the harbours, roadsteads, rocks, shoals, reefs, islands, anchorages, capes, tide currents, inlets, rivers and streams . . . Champlain, Treatise on Seamanship and the Duty of a good seaman, 1632 (show video clip) Map of New France . . . made on its true meridian line by the Sieur de Champlain, Captain for the King, 1632

  15. Mi'kmaq encampment at Tuft's Cove (c. 1837)

  16. Mi'kmaq (First Nations peoples) at Tuft's Cove settlement, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada (c. 1871).

  17. ISSUES OF CONTACT • Military Involvement • Business Partnerships • Changes of Technology • Cultural Change and Assimilation • Spread of Communicable Diseases • Changes in Land Ownership and Sovereignty

  18. Spirit of the Beothuk, life sized bronze statue of Shanawdithit by Gerry Squires(2005) at the Beothuk Interpretation Centre, Boyd's Cove, Newfoundland.

  19. Primary and Secondary Sources • Primary Source - a document, record or written account made by someone who took part in or witnessed an event; a firsthand or eyewitness account that comes directly from the past via diaries, letters, government records,… • Secondary Source - a written account made sometime after an event has taken place and by people who were not eyewitnesses; may be based on primarysources or on other secondary sources such as your textbooks - a reconstruction of the past for it is an account of the past based on research and analysis

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