08-New Euro-Native Relations

New Euro-Native
Relations & Native
Dispossession
HIST 124: Canada in the World
2 November 2010
mercredi 3 novembre 2010

New Euro-Native
relations
• Royal Proclamation & Quebec Act

New Euro-Native
relations
• France reneges its Native alliances

Example 1
• Pontiac (c1720-1769), Odawa warrior,
from Detroit region

Pontiac

Pontiac’s Rebellion
• Pan-Indianism

Example 2
• Handsome Lake (i.e. Ganeodiyo,
1735-1815), Seneca prophet

Handsome Lake
Religion
• See Code of Handsome Lake
• a.k.a Gaiwiio, « The Good Words »
• http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/
parker

Upper Canada

Anishinabeg
• End of independance
• Displacement

Anishinabeg
• 1783 to 1865: land sales
Virtual Handout

Joseph Brant
• Thayendanegea (1742-1807)
• 6 Nations (Mohawk)

Brant

Maritime Colonies

Maritime Colonies
•NS, NB
–Mi’Kmaqs, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy

Megumaage=
Mi’Kmaq
country

Malecite
Country &
Passamaquoddy
Country

After Utrecht, 1713
•Mi’Kmaq don’t recognise British authority
over Megumaage

Native reprisals
• Oust British from their territories
• Attacks on British troops and boats

Naval Technology
• Archeological and historical evidence

Sea canoe types

Mi’Kmaq sea canoe

Mi’Kmaq Petroglyph

Petroglyph

Naval Wars
• Btw 1710 and 1763

Peace treaties
• 1726-1761

Dispossession
• 1763-1867
• Loyalists/settlers on their lands

End of Independance
• Peace + epidemics + economic segregation
+ settlers

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