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Nov 9, 1500
Spirituality of the First Occupants
-In the 1500, the first occupants belived in mythes and legends.
-They would make dream catchers to take away all the bad in there lives while they were asleep so that way there was enough room for the good. -
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Social Relationships
The first occupants have many of the same social relationships as we do today:
-They respect there elders.
-They have a freedom of actions, but they don't have any written laws or any private property.
-They also have a lot of traditions. -
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Nature
The first occupants think that all living organisms have a spirit or soul. Everything in the living world has a beginning and an end. The circle of life. They belive that we must respect nature and treat it as human beings aswell. -
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Cummunication and Exchange
The first occupants traded and shared mostly everything. They only did oral exchanges though.
The Ameriendians did many songs and dances when someone would pass away and they would sacrafice and give away many valuables.
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Period: Nov 9, 1500 to
Culture and Current of Thought
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The Divine Right Of King
This concept means that they king had total power. If you didn't follow the rules of the King and the church you were to b excommunicated. That meant that you were not allowed to talk, trade or be around anybody that was still with the church. -
Catholism
You were to do what the church wanted or you were excommunicated by the church and the society. This rule was very powerful because nobody wanted to be excommunicated by the church. -
Religion in New France
The church was in charge of religion. They were everywhere. The Priest took care of all the medicines and cures. They also worked as missionaries. The missionaries were the people who would try to convert the Ameriendians to Catholic Christian. The nuns worked in the hospitals and the schools and the potential preist were educated to become preists.
Most of the people in the community were extremely religious. It was the center of their lives. -
Life In New France
The settlers in New France really liked the way they lived, but it was a hard working life. The settlers were self-dependent because the colony wasn't developing very much. -
Trying to Convert the Native
The preist would go to the Native reserves and try to convert so that way the Catholic religion becomes majority. This never happened because the Ameriendians wouldn't convert. Only a total of 7 villages of First Occupants converted, which means that their evangelizations failed. -
Becoming Canadien
The inhabitants the colony formed a society based off of french traditions, but including aspects of Aboriginal culture. -
Liberalism
Liberalism was the freedom of thought and the freedom of individual. The government diffused their thoughts in news papers and telling their opinion to the Parlement -
Ultramontanism
This philosophy is when they encourage the church to run the whole colony. -
Anticlericalism
Some people from the colony were against having this philosophy because they didn't like the fact that the church was running everything in the colony -
How the Government Functionned
The government was a constitutional monarchy which meant that the Queen the Govenor and the General have only symbolic power. Then came the Parliamentary Democracy which had three levels of government; Federal, Provincial, Municipal. Each of these governments had three roles which were Legislative, Excutive and Judicial -
The Influence of Liberal Ideas
The liberal ideas were equal rights, freedome of speech and popular representation in the colonial government. All of these ideas were diffused in journals and books. With these rights, the British government granted its North American colonies legislative assemblies in 1791. -
Nationalismes
It's a devotion to your own nation and you are only interrested in your nation and care about your nation. You favoritize it and couldn't care less for the other nations. -
Facism
This was the idea of having a dictator. Having only one person run the whole country. The way they would get their word out would be through propaganda and force of others. One example of facism is by Adolf Hitler who told all of Germany to go against the Jews. He started World War 2 -
Feminism
Women used to have only two job which was to have children and take care of the house. They weren't treated with the same respect as men. When World War One started, the factories lost all there men because they had to go to war. Luckly the women stepped in. They had there first chance to vote, but only for their husbands and they were able to work in real jobs. Since those times, women have been getting the equal attention they wnated. Now they get the same pay and they can get the same type of -
Feminism pt.2
of jobs as men (as in the same ranking). -
Agriculturism
To help the farmers to farm more. We supported what they did for the colony and we kept encouraging them to do more. This created community groups such as Le Cercle des fermières. -
Socialist and Communist
In 1929 the communist and socialist ideas were getting more and more popular. Many of the groups participating in these fights were labour unions and feminist organizations. Sadly, these ideologies were condemned by political and religious authorities.
