http://www.canadiana.org/citm/imagepopups/peace_e.htmlHistory 3010
Film paper
"Read" one of the films as a text. To what extent have the film makers been influenced by recent scholarship about Indian Country? Is there are argument in the film that "common ground" was possible between Natives and Colonials--or not? What is argued that might have made that possible--or not?
Black Robe (1991) (rated R)
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The Montagnais man is depicted ready for war, armed with wooden shield, bow, arrows, and a mace. He wears a loincloth, probably skin, decorated with porcupine quills and matachias (beading). His short fringed cloak seems to be made from pelts with the hair worn inside. In Des Sauvages (1603), Champlain had described the Montagnais setting off for war wearing, he said, “their richest fur clothings, adorned with beads and multicolor strings.” The warrior in the cartouche wears his hair carefully dressed: these were the Indians Champlain called the Cheveux relevés, “Upswept Hair,” having noted that they “arranged and combed [their hair] better than our courtiers.”
The Montagnais woman in contrast has her smooth, shoulder-length hair held by a bandeau. Her short, fringed tunic leaves a shoulder bare. She holds an oar, and a pirogue can be glimpsed behind her. While the men do their war dance, explains Champlain, the Montagnais women “strip themselves stark naked, though they keep their finest beads, then climb into the canoes, naked as they are. They dance, then set out on the water, fighting among themselves with their oars…”
From Canada, Internet resources about New France for teachers: http://www.edselect.com/newfrance.htm
From Quebec, information about the Jesuites: http://www.patrimoine-religieux.com/patrimoine_en.asp?no=22049
From the Library of Canada, information about the Black Robes: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/h24-1430-e.html
Links to information about the Algonquin:
Last of the Mohicans (1992) (rated R)
A number of films have been based on the book--1911, 1920, 1932, 1936 and 1992. The 1992 version was, according to director Mann, based more on the 1936 film version than on Cooper's book.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html
The script: http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/lastmohi.txt
The text of James Fenimore Cooper's novel: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CooMohi.html
Information about the Iroquois Confederacy: http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/
The New World (2005) (rated PG 13)
John Smith's Virginia Map (New York Public Library) http://www.wordsworth2.net/literary/smithjohn.htm
Virtual Jamestown: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/