The Swensons and Engstroms in America Although no definitive explanation exists for William’s father‚ Charley Swenson‚ remaining in Sweden instead of emigrating with his parents and siblings‚ prospects of a sustainable livelihood accorded him by the inheritance of his father’s property suggests a plausible reason. Conversely‚ the rocky land of northern Gotland‚ hardly suitable for agriculture‚ provided an inhospitable environment for any farmer wishing to flourish.1 Nevertheless‚ perhaps with
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in New France at the time was the Fur trade. The fur trade was extremely important and played a huge role in the historical development of New France‚ being the lure of the resources that convinced the French to establish a permanent residence in the St. Lawrence River Valley in the early 17th century. The French were also motivated to expand into the Great Lake regions‚ the Mississippi‚ Ohio‚ Illinois river valleys and the Hudson Bay watershed. Although the fur trade was huge in business‚ not everyone
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In Kiss of The Fur Queen by Tomson Highway and Lightfinder by Aaron Paquette‚ storytelling by elders to a younger generation is shown to be a significant part of Indigenous culture and life. In both these novels storytelling portrays the lack of knowledge the younger generation have of their history‚ and how in some instances it can be an outcome of western influence. In Kiss of the Fur Queen‚ the Okimasis brothers Jeremiah and Gabriel are misinformed of the history of their village‚ and Aisling
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An Analysis of the “Testimonial” Perspective of the First Peoples in Residential School Abuse in Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomson Highway This literary analysis will define the testimonial point of view of Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis through a First people’s perspective on emotional and sexual abuse in Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomson Highway. Champion and Ooneemeetoo witness European religious values as a means of eradicating their identity as Natives in Canadian culture. Highway narrates
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grew vegetable crops. Today‚ more than half of the First Nations people live on reserves. Others live and work in cities across whole Canada. Many of the early French fur traders and some English traders married First Nations women. Their children and descendants are the Metis people. The Metis were an important part of the fur trade and they developed their own distinct freestanding on the savannah. When Europeans arrived in what is now Canada‚ they began to make agreements‚ or pacts‚ with
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The population of New France at around 1750 was about 80‚000 people. The French almost exclusively devoted themselves to fur trading with the Indians. This kind of trade brought the French lots of wealth‚ but it did not promote the settlement. France differed from Spain and England through its governmental leadership‚ views on women‚ relationships with the native Americans‚ and it’s slavery. In the French government‚ the people of New France had to voice in their government. The king‚ along with
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Colonizing is to establish or secure permanently a residence or it is‚ to become fixed‚ resolved‚ or established residence or colony. frontiers of inclusion is a border between two countries/a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory that decide to include another group‚ religion‚ country and or settlers into their culture or environment. Exclusion is to prevent or restrict the entrance or/to expel or bar especially from a place or position previously occupied. An inclusive
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fairly easy growth of Catholicism. The New World is a highly wanted region of land‚ so we must go conquer now-- before it’s too late. England already established a colony name Jamestown where tobacco ran most of the economy. France is developing the fur trade
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its cover however and the Europeans’ learned that. Native American towns were scarce and often small; biggest one had approximately 30 houses (Document 2). They wore loose deer skin mantles and aprons around their waste that were made of the same fur. They had no edged tools or weapons for defense and had no idea on how to make proper tools in case of attacking the Europeans’. Their defense was armor that they made out of sticks that were held together by thread and shields that were made of bark
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HBC: FROM FUR TO FENDI 1. Describe at least three strategies used by HBC prior to its sale to Zucker and NRDC. 3 different strategies used by HBC prior to its sale to Zucker and NRDC are: 1) Creating a new rewards program that would allow customers to receive rewards based on the purchases they made. This strategy would then induce customer to buy more products and then receive some sort of compensation for it. 2) Next strategy which they had used but did not fare as well was known
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