Contact with the First Nations People Pages 46-50

Can you think of times in your life when you experienced fair trade? Can you think of times in your life when you experienced unfair trade? Trade

Fair trade occurs when each side benefits from the exchange of goods and services. Both sides enter freely into trade, meaning, no one is forced into it. Goods or services being exchanges are of equal or similar value. Fair Trade

Unfair Trade One side benefits more than the other. Some element of power or force is used. One side is forced or feels forced into trade, usually with threats to safety or well being. The more powerful side does not “need” to trade, this is what deems it more powerful Unfair Trade

Pages 46-47 Read pages 46-47 quietly to yourself. Keep in mind from whose perspective you are reading…the European Explorers, fishers and the Mi’kmaq. Keep a t-chart list in your notes on how trade was fair, or unfair. Pages 46-47

If you could choose, which side of this trading relationship would you be on? Who would want to trade furs for metal goods? Who would want to trade metal goods for furs? Reflection

The trade discussed on pages 46-47 was seen as “fair” because both sides benefited. What did you write as fair? What did you write as unfair? Reflection

Responding to the Question How would you describe that trading relationship that developed between the Mi’kmaq and European fishers? To what extent was it mutually beneficial or unequal, in your view? Why? Responding to the Question

The Tragedy of the Beothuk We read previously about a positive relationship between First Nations people and Europeans. We are going to explore a very different relationship in the next few pages. The Tragedy of the Beothuk

There is a mystery involved in this piece of history There is a mystery involved in this piece of history. What do you think this mystery is? After reading, let’s discuss. Read pages 47-48 together as a class. Mystery

They mystery is… throughout all recorded history, we know little of the Beothuk people. Why do you think that is? Disucss. Mystery…

Economic factors: desire to control wealth (cod fishery) led to European settlements in Newfoundland, which conflicted with the Beothuk’s needs. Social Factors: a sense of superiority made the French and the British unconcerned about the needs of the Beothuk and to judge them without learning about them. Mystery…solved?

Mystery…solved??? Other factors, besides imperialism: Geography: First Nations scholars believe island peoples were especially vulnerable to stresses because they could not retreat from them. The First People of Tasmania were also made extinct by British settlement. Disease: some researchers believe disease may have killed as much as half the original population of First Nations and Inuit peoples in North America. Disease resulted from contact, not directly from imperialism. Europeans did not realize they had brought these diseases. Mystery…solved???

Remembering Shawnadithit The handout given to you presents an announcement given by a British settler in Newfoundland. Notice her name is spelled several different ways as it was not an English name so many spelled it differently. How could this announcement be written to balance perspectives? Remembering Shawnadithit

Balancing Perspectives. Using different words for Shanwadithit (Indian for example) Adding information about the historical context of the extinction of the Beothuk people: circumstances and accepted values and attitudes, that have contributed to it. Balancing Perspectives.