1500's Native's

1.Linguistic families and territories 

 

 The territories of Quebec in the 1500's were split among 3 linguistic families, the Inuit, the Algonquin and the Iroquois each of which had distinct characteristics that set them apart from the other groups. the Algonquin and the Iroquois  were near polar opposites. where one had more authority given to the father and the other given to the mother. even the techniques to acquiring food were opposites as well one focused on hunting while the other focused on farming and gathering.  

 

2.World view of native people 

 

After the start of the French colonization of Quebec the French had released a statement on their perception of the native peoples. the statement had claimed the natives were "savage" un-civilized" without proper perception of their culture and way of life. the only attempted contact was for trading or converting them to Christianity or Catholicism. a lot of the peoples refused to communicate with the French because of their materialism.  

 

3. Roles of men and women in Algonquin and Iroquoian society

 

 Men and women had very different roles in both societies. The Algonquin's were hunters and the fathers held the power in the house hold he taught the boys to hunt and the women who stayed in the village taught the children and raised them to honor their father.in the Iroquois society the mother held the most power due to the fact that the group was mainly farmers and gatherers and the fathers were in the home teaching the children.   

 

4. Social and cultural aspects common to all native society

 

Gift giving was on of the most common of actions among the native cultures because  it was used to show respect but also to share all that you had. The circle of life was the main system of beliefs among all natives. The idea of the circle of life preached that all things were alive and could feel  this in turn led to prayers thanking “mother earth” for everything  she has provided. Not all histories were archived due to the fact that most treaties were formed on wampum's that were traded between tribes. 

 

 

5. Cultural consequences of encounters with the Europeans

 

Due to encounters with the Europeans , the natives became a part of several wars that decimated their tribes and destroyed their culture. After the war of 1812 the natives had already lost all but the majority of their land and that affected their population. As each new wave of Europeans arrived they brought with them several different types of diseases and flues that caused the near extinction of the natives. A lot of the remaining native population was later forced to live on reserves and only reserves.