Image "The Hunt for moose," by Cornelius Krieghoff, Brooklyn Museum Neither Indian nor French Canadian, but Métis and solidarity! This meeting of minds and people that sit on the foundation of the Quebec nation today, even Groulx, who did not laugh with miscegenation, saw it and was able to take the time to in draw, in his way, the peripheries of his soul. Rightly, the author of "Our master the Past" has never denied brag that "You can be the historian of his generation" which each generation must repeat its history and each generation inevitably reactionary figure in the eyes of the one that follows. That historians of my generation who were comfortably asleep in the ease of historiographical consensus, taking note to ensure more ...
For masters of Canada, who have succeeded over the insults of history is always the last entrant who receives the honors of the occupier and who deserves the ultimate privilege not to be denied in As a member of any ethno-cultural community. If history is a fellow who is still selling to the highest bidder, no lack never one to carry high the banner of justice and freedom. If the political and legal, that shape their discretion, now recognize that Indians are the result of the meeting of continents and interbreeding, they are a race sui generis and that they deserve to be protected assimilation. They must also accept the consideration that, conscious and proud of the difference in the Aboriginal, is said rather Metis, and they give him the same rights, respect and equal recognition in the womb of the state. When
bell tolling the end of French colonialism in northern North America, autochthony who became so well received at the point of being unrecognizable. Certainly Indianness survived heartbreak and misery in this inevitable clash of continents, but we are forced to recognize, it is no longer the sole right to claim the benefits of "savagery" she now shares with Children born to this meeting. While in Quebec in early August 1749 the Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm (1716 † 1779) notes in this regard, that "the Indians of Canada now have their blood mixed deeply than Europeans and a majority of Indians now living originate first in Europe. " And there is no counterpart on the side of the colonizers: " We know also several examples of French who voluntarily married native women and have adopted their lifestyle, he says, but we did not an example is an Indian or a European united and took his way of life ... "*
The result will give him the full right ...
Although this observation point is particularly aimed at "Indians" settled in the region of Quebec under the French regime, and it describes the ethno-cultural reality of the Huron of Lorette, the picture that emerges gives thanks to the distance traveled by a century and a half in the outlying regions. However, if the settlement takes Laurentian clearly benefit from this fusion of races. If it regularly takes note of the importance of this character trait is involved in all of Quebec society in which one or the other claim, This does not mean that it is prepared to abdicate its Euro-Canadian culture in favor of Canada-Native American culture, and admit that this great meeting of civilizations has also been the source of this new humanity that feels and does is said or completely Indian nor completely Canadian, but simply because it is new and different is the inevitable result.
Historian Groulx whole it is ethnocentric in its approach, and despite all the effort he put into his rhetoric to obscure the fact that Métis drowns in his "race" French-Canadian But is he too much pride to admit the existence of two cultural streams within the same "race" that has survived the drama of the Conquest and which has ceased to be recomposed by leveraging new ethnic contributions from Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands. When you know all the rage he has deployed to castigate those who dare mention the extent of interbreeding Indian-Canadian in Canada when the French were the masters, one can only wonder that it took also the time to praise the rich nature of the ancestors and to extol "the rare duplication of their abilities. "
*** "It is almost two races, two peoples. In one, the love of the soil clinging to the stubborn, passionate, hard to shake the earth, shaping a country's belief that we can do great on a small square of a few acres, that land common, and that the country is born, the humble work of each, to carve a corner like a jewel, if necessary, heroic death, to the position opposite the barbarian, as a sentry, a soldier in avant-garde sum, a heroic job, but in settling social horizons defined by ; The taste of winning, but step by step, steadily, by the advance of harvest and steeples.
And the other human type, the latter powerless to remain in place while legal projections. No more taste of collective heroism, teamwork, disciplined, but the adventure alone, personal risk, a juggernaut to charge into the unknown, to blow, step by step, the mask of the old America, and each new articulation geographical gain momentum more impetuous move, as long as there is water, so there a land that is hidden, to carve out a land area, s'esbroufer at ease. And yet this work relate to each other, accomplish the same concern for humanity, advancing with a passion to rival, to contain and defeat a commercial competition, but also offer a friendly hand to the man that is discovered, and each of its advances, score counters and military forts, but also crosses and chapels. In a word, besides those who build solid, great build, as should be to build, in the seventeenth century, the son of the first nation of the world beyond the humble and peaceful picture of the Laurentian valley, brushing a huge historical epic, giving the pastoral country, land of peaceful life, an extension of dream, a permanent invitation to boldness. "**
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Notes: *
Jacques Rousseau and Guy Béthune Travel Pehr Kalm in Canada in 1749, Pierre Tisseyre, 1977, pp. 250-251.
** Lionel Groulx, "The French Canadian race," in Séraphin Marion and Watson Kirkconnell, The Quebec Tradition / Tradition Quebec, Les Editions Lumen Humanitas Collection, Montreal, 1946, pp. 162-166.
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