Unlike my last post that had a little bit of colonization in it ( other post link ) this project is fully about colonization. Perhaps I should talk a little more about “What where the consequences of colonization” which was the driving question to this project. There were many consequences being land taken away, residential schools, and even some good ones like would we really be hear today without it.
In this first part I will talk about the land. When the Europeans first started building in the Americas it was 1608 and the city in question was Quebec. When Samuel de Champlain went to the America’s he didn’t think of it just for trading he saw a fresh start from Europe. This began many wars and treaties I will talk about later. In just the span of 100 years almost 50% of Canada was owned by the Europeans and now almost all of Canada is owned with some exceptions of refuges for indigenous people.
Now I will talk about the wars. The first major war taking place was the one between the Europeans and the Iroquois. Now the Europeans had other indigenous tribes as allies for the war so they had more people. The Iroquois were severely unmatched by the standards of how they only had wooden weapons while the Europeans had guns. This war came with lots of death and the torturing of how many. This war lasted between 1688 – 1697. The war that came before this was the beaver war. What turned from gathering pelts turned into a Great War. As many more Europeans came many more beavers were being killed.
With the decline of beaver population came the hunger for more pelts. From this war beavers almost went extinct which was not very good. From this war many died from the years 1609 – 1701. Mainly the Iroquois died from the addition of guns.
Later on in 1831 residential schools started popping up. Residential schools were made to strip culture away from indigenous people resulting in a lot of death. Residential schools were one of the things that most impacted Canada with gradually finding unmarked graves. These schools lasted from 1831 – 1996 so just about 165 years before the last one was burned and destroyed.
Now with all this new found knowledge we were put into groups of three to eventually present a slideshow. This slideshow needed to include some strong factors of colonization like ethnocentrism. Here are the links to both of their blogs, Sven’s blog, Cole’s blog. These partners went on for a while creating notes in one shared document for 2 or 3 weeks. This Was real fun because we got to pick our groups, well got to suggest some people for the teacher to decide. I think my group did pretty well and I will post the slideshow at the end of the blog.
After we finished the presentations we got pretty much the final task to make a 2 slide slideshow with 3 words on each. The upside was we got to use notes to help remember what we are talking about. To my knowledge I think my friend and I did a pretty good job. Forgot to mention that it was an individual slideshow not in groups like the other one.
So in this post I talked about some properties of consequences of colonization and long lasting effects. I do hope you liked this post mainly of colonization and I will see your in the next one.