Let me ask you a question. If one day, strangers came to your door who spoke a different language than you, took you away from your family and dropped you off at a school, never to see your parents again, what would you do? Welcome to the life of an Aboriginal child of 1831.
Our project with Ms McWilliam was about colonization of Canada. We started off learning about the traditional lands and we used this really cool globe of the world that coloured traditional indigenous owned lands. Here’s the link to it
Then Ms McWilliam told us our actual project… making a keynote and presenting it to the BC First People’s 12 class. Even though they’re actually grade 11, that’s still terrifying. Presenting in a group of 3/4 people in front of scary grade 11s! I was put in a group with Chloe and Finnley, and this was probably one of the most stressful groups and I cried a lot because of how much work I had to do, and I had to do majority of the slideshow.
Our main focuses for the slide was Traditional Ways of Life, Politics, and the extinction of the Beothuk people.
The Beothuk people were gradually forced off their lands and had to compete with Europeans for food and natural resources. Unfortunately they all died out by 1830 due to conflicts with Europeans, diseases, and competition for natural resources. They were particularly affected by tuberculosis, which is an illness that affects the lungs. It’s unfortunate to see that because of colonization, this group is now extinct.
Here’s our final presentation!
