28 résultats pour "iroquois"
- Iroquois.
- Iroquois.
- Iroquois - anthropologie.
- M. Violet maître de danse chez les Iroquois (Mémoires d'Outre-tombe, I.)
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Indian Treaties in Canada - Canadian History.
Pontiac led an attack on British forts in the Great Lakes area to end British domination and to reinforce Indian autonomy. In response, British king George III issued theRoyal Proclamation of 1763 to try to appease the Indians of the interior. The proclamation set aside land for the Indians west of the Appalachian Mountains anddescribed this land as “lands reserved to [Indians] … as their Hunting Grounds.” The proclamation not only recognized Indian land ownership, but also required thattreaties...
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New France - Canadian History.
the colony now consisted of a governor-general, an intendant , and a Sovereign Council, all located at Québec, with local governors at Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and law courts for all three districts. The senior official was the governor-general, responsible for military matters and for relations with the indigenous nations and theEnglish colonies. The intendant, a noble trained in law, was the official responsible for civil affairs: justice, law enforcement, and the maintenance of the colon...
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History of Colonial America - U.
Despite the lack of settlement, New France prospered as a vast fur-trading enterprise. French explorers traveled deep into the North American continent seeking newsupplies of deerskins and beaver pelts. In 1673 French missionary Jacques Marquette reached the Mississippi River in present-day Wisconsin. In 1681 explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, traveled down the majestic Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. He honored the reign of King Louis XIV (1643-1715) by creating the newcolony...
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JACQUES CARTIER
3. Deuxième voyage (1935-1936) Fort de son expérience du premier voyage, et cette fois, à la tête de trois navires et de 110 hommes, JacquesCartier quitte Saint-Malo le 19 Mai 1535. Mais, le voyage est difficile, et dure près de cinquante jours. Comptantmaintenant à son bord deux guides précieux et bilingues, Domagaya et Taignoagny , les fils du chef Donnacona, il pénètre dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent, sa découverte géographique la plus importante. Le 13 août il se fait expliquerla géo...
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MASSON André : Paysage iroquois
MASSON André Paysage iroquois Né à Balagny (Oise), 1896 Mort à Paris, 1988 - Après une formation aux Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles et quelques voyages (Italie), Masson, attiré par le cubisme, se fixe à Paris en 1922. André Breton l'invite à participer au mouve ment surréaliste. Masson fut un des premiers à tenter de trouver une équivalence picturale à l'écritu.re automatique, mais il abandonne tem porairement l'huile pour les célèb...
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Canadian Architecture
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L'Anse aux Meadows
In around ad 1000 Norse Vikings sailed from Greenland to North America and set up a village on the tip of what is now
the island of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula.
IglooSome Inuit peoples in the Arctic regions of Canada live in domed houses of snow, or igloos, which provide good insulationand protection from wind. The word igloo comes from the Inuit iglu, meaning “house.”George Holton/Photo Researchers, Inc. Canada’s original inhabitants are known as the First Nations. At the time of European arrival, about 40 nations were scattered across Canada. Many of them lived alongthe coasts, where they could fish. These nations can be classified into five major gro...
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Native American Art.
folding, braiding or weaving, could also be sewn onto the hide. The production of decorated clothing and bags increased after contact with Europeans as a greater variety of textiles and other materials became available throughtrade. Imported glass beads inspired native women, who quickly adapted quillwork techniques for the creation of beaded apparel. European curvilinear and floraldesigns of the 19th century proved as meaningful for the native women who worked with them as they were for the non...
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Native American Architecture.
B Relationship to the Universe and Nature A more profound difference between European American and Native American perceptions lay in how human beings saw themselves in relationship to the universe andin what they believed their responsibilities were to the natural world and to each other. Most European Americans saw themselves as separate from creation andadversaries of nature, ever struggling to conquer and subdue nature and force it to yield to their will. Native Americans saw themselves as...
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Colonial battles in Canada
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht—which ended the War of the Spanish Succession—changed the North American political map. England received Newfoundland, Hudson Bay, part of Acadia, and a protectorate over the Iroquois. New France was limited to Canada, part of Acadia (Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale, today Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, respectively), and Greater Louisiana. Today's New Brunswick became a "disputed land" between the British and French, as England maintain...
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Native American Religions.
In the worldview of most of the indigenous peoples of North America, there were also spiritual beings to be avoided. Native Americans of the Southwest in particular,such as the Navajo and Apache, dreaded contact with ghosts, who were believed to resent the living. These peoples disposed of the bodies of deceased relativesimmediately and attempted to distance themselves from the spirits of the dead, avoiding their burial sites, never mentioning their names, and even abandoning thedwellings in whi...
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armure.
4 ARMURES NON EUROPÉENNES Seule l’Europe occidentale poussa aussi loin le développement des armures métalliques. L’armure la plus connue en dehors des armures européennes est celle que portaient les samouraïs japonais, en bois, cuivre et soie, constituée d’un réseau serré de bandes circulaires, avec des épaulettes et une jupe rappelant celle des anciens Grecs. De telles armures furent en vogue au Japon jusqu’en 1876 ; au Tibet, une armure similaire fut portée jusqu’au XXe siècle. Des variantes...
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La rencontre des premiers occupants de l'Amérique du Nord avec les Européens n'a pas
échappé au schéma classique de la colonisation : privations de territoires, déplacements de
populations, guerres et guérillas.
systématiquement violés par les Blancs, et le gouvernement américain procéda à la déportation des tribus indiennes de l'Est. La conquête de l'Ouest s'accompagna de violents combats et de nombreux massacres. En Californie, la « ruée vers l'or », à partir de 1848, aboutit à un véritable génocide. Les dernières tribus indiennes qui résistaient à la conquête, comme les Apaches d'Arizona et du Nouveau-Mexique, furent vaincues dans les années 1880 (défaite de Geronimo, 1886). Après leur dé...
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Montréal
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Montréal, ville du sud-est du Canada située sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent, dans le sud de la province du Québec, à environ 50 km de la frontière avec la Nouvelle-Angleterre
aux États-Unis.
Mercier/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Anjou et Rivière-des-Prairies/Pointe-aux-Trembles/Montréal-Est. Selon ce découpage géographique artificiel de l’île de Montréal, Ville-Marie et le plateau Mont-Royal occupent également ce secteur Est-de-l’Île. 4 ARTS ET CULTURE 4.1 Musées et institutions culturelles Parmi les principaux musées de la ville de Montréal figurent le musée des Beaux-Arts (le plus ancien musée canadien, fondé en 1860 sous le nom anglais d’Art Associationof Montreal), le musée d'Art con...
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George Washington
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George Washington (1732-1799), first president of the United States (1789-1797) and one of the most important leaders in United States history.
A2 Promotion This was Washington’s first experience with the difficulties of raising troops while lacking equipment, clothing, and funds. Apparently he thought his efforts worthy ofsome recognition and successfully applied to Dinwiddie for a lieutenant colonel’s commission. He left Alexandria, Virginia, early in April with about 150 poorly equippedand half-trained troops. A3 First Battles Before he had advanced very far, Washington received news that the French had driven Trent’s men back from...
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George Washington.
A2 Promotion This was Washington’s first experience with the difficulties of raising troops while lacking equipment, clothing, and funds. Apparently he thought his efforts worthy ofsome recognition and successfully applied to Dinwiddie for a lieutenant colonel’s commission. He left Alexandria, Virginia, early in April with about 150 poorly equippedand half-trained troops. A3 First Battles Before he had advanced very far, Washington received news that the French had driven Trent’s men back from...
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George Washington
A2 Promotion This was Washington’s first experience with the difficulties of raising troops while lacking equipment, clothing, and funds. Apparently he thought his efforts worthy ofsome recognition and successfully applied to Dinwiddie for a lieutenant colonel’s commission. He left Alexandria, Virginia, early in April with about 150 poorly equippedand half-trained troops. A3 First Battles Before he had advanced very far, Washington received news that the French had driven Trent’s men back from...
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French and Indian War.
Virginia as well as the French governor-general of Canada had attempted to seize their lands. After receiving large presents of supplies and arms, the Iroquoisgrudgingly renewed their alliances with the British colonies. Delegates then moved on to plan other defensive measures. An important topic was a plan of union developed by Benjamin Franklin. The Albany Plan, as it became known, proposed a single institution to govern all of the Britishcolonies in America. Under the plan, each colony would...
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French and Indian War - Canadian History.
Virginia as well as the French governor-general of Canada had attempted to seize their lands. After receiving large presents of supplies and arms, the Iroquoisgrudgingly renewed their alliances with the British colonies. Delegates then moved on to plan other defensive measures. An important topic was a plan of union developed by Benjamin Franklin. The Albany Plan, as it became known, proposed a single institution to govern all of the Britishcolonies in America. Under the plan, each colony would...
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Native American Architecture
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Native American Architecture, traditional architecture of the peoples of who lived in North America before Europeans arrived.
Mound Builders who resided in the area.John Elk III/Bruce Coleman, Inc. Another mound building culture, named Hopewell, also appears to have originated in Ohio but expanded west to Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma, south to Louisiana,Mississippi, and Alabama, east to Georgia and the Appalachian Mountains, and north to Wisconsin, Michigan, and lower Ontario in Canada. The Hopewell culture lastedfrom about 200 BC to 400 AD. Hopewell people built large, linear mounds to create enclosures in geometrical...
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Fondée au XVIIe siècle sur la côte atlantique, symbole de
Enfin, les habitants en provenance de l'Amérique latine représentent 11 % de la population de l'agglomération et le nombre des Chinois est en augmentation sensible. Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste Hudson Hudson Henry Indépendance américaine (guerre de l') Iroquois Verrazano (Giovanni da) Les livres New York - la Liberté éclairant le monde, page 3422, volume 6 New York - l'Empire State Building, page 3423, volume 6 La configuration...
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New York - geography.
The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...
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New York - USA History.
The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...
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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...