I believe that both sides did not understand the treaty. I feel like the British over estimated the aboriginals understanding of the treaty. The aboriginals really believed that the British were being very peaceful because of the tension between the 2 groups.

The first quote is from douglas. Because he realized what happened, this led to him being very bias and saying that it was fair, which it was not.

The second quote is from Latasse. He says that to the aboriginals understanding the fur and blankets were a trading gift.

The third quote is also from Latase. He explains how if the aboriginals knew it was a trade for land they would not have just taken blankets. He also states that there was no money to his knowledge because if there was the aboriginals would have known what the payment was for.

The fourth quote is from a proffesor. He states that the aboriginals would have believed the x they were signing was for peace because it looks like a cross representing christianity. Therefore telling us the aboriginals did not understand the trade was for there land.

The fifth quote is from a member of the sanich people. He says that they did not understand English very well and believed they knew what they were translating was right.

The sixth quote is from an actual translator from the signing. He tells them what he thought the British were saying but it is not at all close to what the British actually said.

The seventh quote is from the same translator. He says that he believed the British said the blankets were for peace and thanking the aboriginals for not fighting.

The eighth quote is from a man whose father told him what happened at the signing. He explains that his father told him the crosses were believed to be peace signs and that the British were thanking the aboriginals for keeping the peace.

The ninth quote is from douglas. He is saying that after he discussed with the aboriginals they agreed to give up their lane. This is very bias because clearly from all the other statements no one understood douglas.

The last quote is from an elder of the sanich group. He states everything they believed about the crosses and what they thought the actual singing was. He says that everyone believed the offerings were for peace.

1. Metis- the canadians didn’t give them anything they promised from manitoba. The railway was taking money that the Metis were supposed to get
Aboriginals- nothing in the treaties that was promised happened and it made their life hard
Canadians- canadians thought the Metis were grouping up and thought if they gave the aboriginals all land together the would rebel against Canada

2- it was caused by the metis grouping at botche. The canadians took this as a rebellion threat and decided to send the nwp to them. The canadians ended up retreating.

3- they decided to send more troops into the areas of the battles. The canadians wanted to have as many troops as they could not the area around duck lake

4- big bears aboriginals captured Metis and then big bear tried to convince his men to release them but instead his men killed the metis. Overall it was a fight between all of big bears men.

5-midleton decided to send men to batoche to fight the rebels. The rebels ambushed the canadians and many of the metis were killed. The metis ended up stopping Middletons push to batoche.

6- the Cree fought general otters men. Otters men were confronting the aboriginals when the fight started.they fought for 6 hours. The canadians ended up retreating.

7- the CPR is what made the metis and aboriginals mad because the canadians were focusing more time and money on the railway then they were on fulfilling the promises they made to each group.

8- Middleton was taking a slow approach to defeat the rebels and it wasn’t working well. The rebels ended up leaving their fort to come attack the canadians and we’re over run. This resulted in riel surrendering .

9- they should have stayed at their fort. They left all their protection and ran right into the open against the canadian boats. If they stayed back they would have had a chance of winning.

10- the lawyers tried to convince the jury that Riel’s religious and political delusions made him unaware of the nature of his acts.

11- riel was hung big bear and pound maker were sentenced to 3 years in jail and Dumont fled to Montana

“Battle of Seven Oaks.” – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

The battle of seven oaks was caused because the NWC was upset due to these new settlers coming from Scotland were “part” of the HBC. Since the NWC was angry they decided to steal the HBC pemmican boats and their pemmican that the immigrants were eating. The NWC was trying to starve the immigrants to death. When the pemmican proposal was put into lave it made the NWC mad because they were thinking that the HBC was trying to stop their business and that they were ruling over everyone. The battle only lasted 15 minutes and start when Semple saw a group of NWC. When he stopped them he realized they were stealing the immigrants pemmican. Semple had only 21 men and the NWC had many more resulting in Semple being killed. After the fight many of the immigrants left. Selkirk also started caluring the NWC forts and arresting their people for the “masacre” of his men. The battle also resulted in them starting to talk about who should live in the Northwest and what kind of society should be there.

 

This image is from a neutral perspective showing that there are many more Metis the Semple’s men. It also shows Semple’s men being killed and it looks as if the Metis are the ones who are more experienced in fighting.

 

Double majority- this meant that the laws would almost never get passed since both canada west and Canada east had to get majorities for the laws to pass. It is very unlikely that both groups would have the same majority.

 

Independents- they didn’t have to answer to anybody. They could topple a government by voting against one of the bills.

 

Equal representation vs proportional representation- Equal representation causes larger population places to suffer because laws will affect lots of people not like in smaller populating where there is not many people to be affected.

Proportional is unfair for the small population because only large population areas will get their say on the laws.

 

Absentee Landlords- Joseph’s father didn’t pay the bills and got the land taken away from him. When he died Joseph thought he would get the land but when he got there

Famine- in my movie the famine will be a reason to leave ireland. In far and away he leaves because he is angry with the house being burned down, and doesn’t want to keep being the low class.

Evictions- When the landlord came and told Joseph the land was 3 weeks late payment, the landlord burned down his house and kicked him off the land.

Womens roles- In the movie when Joseph was cleaning cothes, Shannon didn’t know how to do it. In America women are supposed to know how to wash the man’s clothes.

Coffin ships- When Joseph and Shannon wanted to go to America they had to go on a coffin ship. In the movie it didn’t potty it as well as it should have, since the conditions were much worse than what was in the movie. In my movie, the character might get sick on the ship since it was such horrible conditions.

Religious divide- in ireland, Joseph was a Catholic which was the lower class religion. If you were Protestant you were an upper class, like Shannon and her family. Also both groups hated each other because the upper class thought they were better than the upper class, and the lower class thought it was unfair that the upper class had so much more power.

British attitude towards Irish- When Joseph gets thrown out of the place he is staying in boston, he wants to get food and offers the man work for food. The man tells him he won’t hire Irish and he has a very mea  attitude towards joseph.

Protestant vs. Catholics- These 2 groups didn’t like each other due to the upper class being protestant, and the lower class being catholic. Thesee classes hated each other because of the class system and the lower class being treated poorly by the upper class, and the upper class thought they had a right to treat the lower class like crap.

Class- in the movie when Joseph goes to kill the land lord you see how much of a difference there is between high class and low class. The high class thinks of the low class as dirty. When Joseph gets caught he sees how much of a difference there s between the classes. The high class gets everything they want and can treat the low class terribly.

 

 

Farming

A. This shows farming due to all the trees that you can see being cleared. What appears to be a small farmhouse, and a cart that looks like it would be used for bringing supplies. There looks to be a peasant and an upper class person talking to each other.

B. This correlates to the textbook by the clearing of land, which is something they had to do when they wanted to start a farm. There also seems to be a peasant and an upper class person, which the textbook says that upper class people owned the land and peasants worked on them.

 

Social class

A.  This shows social class due to the people riding in their carriges. The shows the upper class people and how they were treated very well. There is also a road through past buildings with many people roaming the streets.

B. This shows how the upper class people were in power. They are riding in fancy carriges, not just walking like the lower class people.

Religion

A. This shows the church and how it is a big part of their community. It is in the  middle of the street and very large. This shows a road and lots of upper class people roaming around.

B. It says that church was a big part of their life. This is reflected by where the building is and how large it is compared to the other buildings around it.

Land issues

A. This show’s how the land system worked and how unfair it was by giving the clergy most of the land.

B. The textbook says how unfair the system was and how it catered toward upper class people which is being showed here.

Loyalty to britan

A.  This shows two upper class people walking towards some buildings wearing red coata.

B. This shows that the people were loyal to britan since they were wearing red coats. It also shows that not that many people wore red coats, just some.