Mr.Peppermint wrote:
Trudeau has already issued more apoligies than anyone in history
Do you really need more???
Actually it would probably be Premier Doug Ford doing the
apologizing,but who he'd have to apologize to is up for debate.
It might be useful for me to flesh out the backgrounder,since if
Wilfred Laurier opens a campus in Miltons Educational Village you might see one of the
actors in the "Conquest Hypothesis " debate coming to teach at that campus.
So its 1949 and Ontario History says
Champlain Came
then the Iroquois defeated the Hurons and ate Brebeuf in 1649AD
So everything before about 1609 is pretty murky in those
Ontario History 101 textbooks getting published in 1949
Some farmer named Goessens in Norfolk Cty bulldozing a field uncovers
a archaeological site.Tom Lee of the National Museum of Canada comes along in 1949 and does a emergency test trench on the mostly bulldozed and destroyed ancient village.
However he contacts folk at some American museums and universities
and in April 1950 a fairly thorough aerchaeological dig and study is
done of that village.As I understand matters Lee uses the unique pottery style
from the Goessens site and other ancient villages along Lake Eries
north side to declared the historic existence
of the Glen Meyer culture (850AD to 1250AD)
and over the next decade further work by the archaeologists along
Lake Ontario's north end brings the Pickering culture to life.The Pickerings
had a different pottery style then the Glen Meyers,hence two distinct
medieval(?) Iroquois cultures.
As I understand matters JV Wright noted in his
National Museum of Canada book 210
Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition (1966)
that around 1300AD onwards pottery from ancient villages above Lake Erie
suddenly had more in common with Pickering pottery then Glen Meyer pottery.
So its 1200AD and about 500 or so Glen Meyer women and girls
are making Glen Meyer pottery
and then by 1300AD 500 women and girls of the "Unknown Mystery" culture
are making Pickering pottery.
The Conquest Hypothesis
Which has given Ontario archaeologists indigestion ever since
Wright published it in 1966
However the Ontario Government ( Premier Mike Harris)
made the Conquest Hypothesis Official Ontario History
when on pages 33 and 34 of Aboriginal Ontario ( 1993)
there was a brief toned down 2 paragraph version of
the Conquest Hypothesis included in that chapter
of a 300 or so page history book on
aboriginals in Ontario
So Doug Ford needs to kneel
not Justin Trudeau
In a 2013 doctoral paper some Western university student wrote
I noted she didn't want the Conquest Hypothesis anywhere
near her 'family friend medieval Iroquoians in Ontario'
thesis
So the past can impact the present