Differences in World Views Chapter 6

  European explorers impacted aboriginal peoples in different parts of the world during the age of exploration and imperialism  Differences in values, beliefs, and traditions would affect both cultures in many ways  Overall, Europeans and aboriginal peoples had very different world views To what extent does cultural contact affect people?

  The arrival of European in the America's in the 15 th Century launched a series of Cultural Contacts  Contact became more frequent as cultures began to be in contact more often  AS contact continued two different world views began to clash! Perspectives of Cultural Contact

 Interpret the information below – what differences do you notice? p119

At the time of conflict, European powers were competing against one another  At issue – economic and military supremacy, power and wealth, desire to acquire new territory, desire to spread European values and Christian Faith  As they did this Europeans began laying claim to lands previously unknown to them totally disregarding and natives that had lived there before contact

  Based on your prior knowledge what kinds of goods and technologies did Indigenous and Europeans exchange?  What impact might these exchanges have had on the cultures involved? Contact!

  Timeline – 1400s-1500s – Europeans arrived to explore the Atlantic shores around what is now Newfoundland  Area was inhabited by a tribe called the Beothuk  At first, contact between both cultures was limited  Europeans took great interest in the supply of fish The Beothuk

  Set up summer fishing villages – these blocked Beothuk access to the sea  Beothuk forced to move inland  1600s –fur trade moves into Newfoundland – Beothuk not interested in taking part  English and Beothuk competed for food and furs  Tensions climbed – conflict occurred  English attacked and killed Beothuk  Over the years –the loss of their traditional resources and continued conflict with Europeans caused the Beothuk population to decline

  By 1829, the Beothuk people became extinct  Last survivor – a lady named Shawnadithit – before she died, she recorded as what she could remember of the history of her people in the form of drawings, notes, etc.  Significance of the extinction of a culture?  No more history, language, no more stories, no traditions to share

Potlatch Societies  Existed for thousands of years on the West Coast  A “Potlatch” remains an important social, political and economic ceremony – held for many different reasons – usually celebrations  Helped maintain political ties with each tribe as well stories were told to strengthen their oral traditions  Gifts were given!  Usually from renewable resources (game, decorations etc)  Arrival of the Europeans introduced non renewable goods and potlatch hosts began giving expensive European goods.  Change was even greater when the Canadian gov’t would end potlatch ceremonies – banned in 1884 – would have to be conducted in secret  1951 – ban finally lifted – Cultural revitalization occured

  To Christianise the Natives  Europeans needed a labour force (potlatch economy did not support this)  Need to civilize Aboriginal peoples  Though was to assimilate the Native Cultures into European Why Would the Canadian Government want to supress Native Tradition?

The Sudan  Sudan in a nation in Northeast Africa  Britain began ruling the Sudan in 1881  Britain and Egypt made an agreement to rule the Sudan together in 1899  They created a “closed door” policy  The cultures of North and South Sudan were separated from one another  North Sudan –mostly Arab people  South Sudan – mostly African people

  1956 – Sudan gained independence  North and south were reunited – power was handed over to the Arabs in the north  They imposed Islamic rule  People in the south – resisted this change – many were denied their rights  Tensions arose between the north and south – a “clash of cultures”  Civil war resulted  Led to the depopulation and displacement of Sudan’s southern people  Would this have occurred if the British had never arrived? tIU tIU

 The effects of Imperialism in the Sudan.

 Okay, Okay, enough depressing news, now for something different!