BEAVER NATION IN GREENLAND

THE BEAVER ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE DUNNEZA OR TSATTINE OR DWELLERS IN BEAVER LAND. THEIR TERRITORY WAS VAST IN THE AREA OF ALBERTA -SASKATCHEWAN. THE CREE NATION DROVE THEM WEST WHEN THEY PURCHASED GUNS. THE BEAVER TRIBE HUNTED MOOSE AND SMALL MAMMALS. THEY WERE PEACEFUL TRIBE. THEY LIVED IN SMALL TRIBAL GROUPS. ONCE EUROPEANS CONTACTED THEM IN EARLY 1800'S THEY HAD 10000 FOLKS. BY LATE 1800S EPIDEMICS DECREASED THE SIZE OF 500. THEY SIGNED A TREATY IN 1900. FUR TRADING HAD A BIG IMPACT UPON UPON THE BEAVER AND THE TRIBES. THEY HAD ADOPTED A EUROPEAN DRESSING BY MID 1850S. THEY WERE VICTIMIZED BY PRESSURE ON THERE POISONING METHODS. THE EUROPEAN GOLD RUSH AND POISONING METHODS KILLED THEIR DOGS.

CHILDREN WERE TAUGHT BY ELDERS AND THEY WERE TAUGHT BY ELDERS AND THEY HAD TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE ANIMALS.THE LIFE OF ANIMALS WAS SACRIFICED TO THE HUNTERS. WHEN A BOY REACHED PUBERTY HE WAS SENT AWAY BY HIMSELF TO GO ON A VISION QUEST. HE WOULD FAST AND GO WITHOUT SLEEP. WHEN HE SLEPT HE WOULD DREAM. IF HE DID THINGS PROPERLY AN ANIMAL SPIRIT MIGHT APPEAR TO HIM. YOUNG GIRLS JOINED GAINED POWER DURING PUBERTY. DURING MENSTRUATION A WOMAN HAD THE POWER TO BRING SICKNESS OR DESTROY A HUNTER'S SKILL IN CATCHING GAME. SHE WAS ISOLATED FOR SEVERAL DAYS FROM CAMP. SOMEONE WOULD BRING HER FOOD. SHE COULD NOT STEP OVER A GAME TRAIL.

MARRIAGE WAS PREARRANGED, THE MAN HAD TO LEARN HOW TO HUNT. THE WOMAN WOULD DO ALL THE WORK AROUND CAMP AND CARRY BELONGINGS TO THE NEXT CAMP. AFTER BIRTH THE MOTHER AND BABY SEPARATED FOR A MONTH.

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