Eng10/11 Nov 4

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Good morning, everyone.

We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda:

1. First Nations

Thursday – final essay- general topic

- replacement quiz or test (for the people who contacted me) after essay submitted

Friday – I will be marking and putting final marks together

- email me at 9am to get your final mark

First Nations lecture Part 2

• Where did First Nations people come from?

• Every group/country/people/religion has a creation story

• Christian – The Bible – creation story – Adam and Eve, The Garden of Eden

• First Nations Creation Stories / Creation Myths

myth – legend, fiction, story, has a lot of meaning to the culture

Greek myths – Ancient Greece

Myth of Echo, Echo - nymph

Echo was in love with a boy, Narcissus, narcissist, narcissism

Narcissus fell into the water and drowned

Echo was so heartbroken, that she disappeared. The only thing that is left is her voice.

Greeks – pantheists, many gods and goddesses, God of Wine, God of War, God of the Sea

• Read “The Beginning of the HaidiGwaii World” on LCD

• Talk about Raven

- prominent role in the mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishians, Haidas, Heiltsuks, Tlingits, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit. The raven in these indigenous peoples' mythology is the Creator of the world, but it is also considered a trickster god.

-two different raven characters:

-the creator raven, responsible for bringing the world into being and who is sometimes considered to be the individual who brought light to the darkness

-the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry

• Show pictures “Raven1” “Raven2” “Raven and the First Men”

“Spirit of Haida Gwaii”

Haida jewelry

bear raven orca fox wolf eagle salmon

Bill Reid – popular Haida artist

• archaeology –study of human history

Terra Cotta warriors – China

Archaeological theories about origins of First Nations

archeology – archeo “old” ology “study”

• hominids – Neanderthal, Australopithicus, Cro Magnum

• homo sapiens- Man sapien – “wise” , about 100 000-250 000 yrs

• migration – humans or animal moving or travelling

Birds migrate south every winter.

• immigration- move to a new country, with a passport

• emigrate – leave a country to go to a new country for good

“Yuko emigrated from Japan. She immigrated to Canada.”

nomadic people – always on the move

DATES ARE BEING REVISED ALL THE TIME

• 200 000 years ago, Homo Sapiens in Africa

• 60 000 years ago, humans leave Africa

50 000 years ago reach Australia

• Second wave

35 000 years ago reach Middle East and Central Asia

• 40 000 years ago into Europe

• 25 000 years ago- Ice Age, ice bridge between Russia and Alaska

• 15 000 years ago humans cross The Bering Strait into North America

• Show video “Map Shows How Humans Migrated Across the Globe” (2m30s)

• WATCH THIS VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0&list=RDCJdT6QcSbQ0&start_radio=1

- curious, smart, want to travel, want to learn new things, want to work together, want to share, want to teach each other,

Explore website, LCD http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_groups_origins.html

talk about land bridge

MAYBE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43TYldfqzc (4m-13m)

• Atlantic migration theory

Talk about

• First Nations reactions to these scientific theories

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-indigenous-communities-react-to-the-resurfacing-of-two-migration-theories-1.4479632

Put like on Blog

Listen to audio (9m) EXCELLENT

Describe and summarize controversies, competing theories for students

• Another article about Salutrian/Ice Bridge debate

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ancient-toddler-s-remains-re-ignite-native-origins-debate-1.2534423

First Nation Peoples live here for 12 000-20 000 years before…

CONTACT – late 1490s-1500s First Europeans came to North America

• cooperation between settlers and First Nations- settlers dying of scurvy, lack of Vitamin C

long-standing problem for sailors

limey, pine needle tea

• Work through timeline

https://aboriginalconnections.wordpress.com/teacher-resources/bc-first-nations-historical-timeline/

FLESH OUT Treatment of FN- blanket ceremony information

More Europeans came to North America

• Government decision to put First Nations on Reservations, Reserves

all over Canada