1. Before we start … I want you to think about these questions … How do pictures teach us about the way people are? Is there a danger in letting pictures teach us?

2. The Image of First Nations People… Learning Goal: We are continuing learn about the short and long term consequences of interactions between the First Nations and First Europeans.

3. Specifically, today we are focused on the consequences of these interactions in today. c1492 Columbus and Cabot come to North America -First Contact -First People’s help the Europeans -Trade begins -Takeover of North America begins 1950s – Seepeetza -Residential Schools -Loss of identity -Poverty -Drug and Alcohol Abuse -Land Claims -and many more. What happened between these events to shape the image First Nations? We call these long term consequences

4. Task You need a partner, a pencil, a clipboard, and one coloured pencil (any colour) I want you to look carefully at each of the images. These are old. Some more than 300 years old! Talk with your partner about the image. BIG IDEA: How are First Peoples represented in these images? Record your thoughts on your worksheet.

5. John Cabot leaves for the New World

6. Columbus Lands – Painting c1850

7. Columbus Again (Painting c1850)

8. Does this look different?

9. This is one of the first images of first nations ever. Perhaps the first.

10. What is happening here?

11. Paul Kane Painting – 1840s Paul Kane was born in Ireland, but immigrated to Canada in 1811. He taught himself how to paint and ventured into the Canadian wilderness in 1840 to document and paint the land and its First Nations inhabitants.

13. By Paul Cane 1845

16. The Grown of a Stereotype A stereotype to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. E XAMPLES : All teenagers are trouble makers. All girls like pink. All boys like sports And … All First Nations Peoples are savages.

20. Here’s a nice 1900s Postcard

26. Now … Look at your sheet. With your coloured penicil crayon or marker circle any word that you see as negative. Were there a lot? The big ideas (Answer on lined paper): – How has the image of the first nations peoples been destroyed over the last 400 years? – How do you feel about that? – How do you think they feel? – Does this help you understand the context of Seepeetza better? In other words - Does it help you understand why First Nations Peoples were put into Residential Schools and treated so poorly?