{"id":6368,"date":"2016-11-02T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=6368"},"modified":"2019-06-04T22:28:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T22:28:59","slug":"2-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/preconfederation\/chapter\/2-1-introduction\/","title":{"raw":"2.1 Introduction","rendered":"2.1 Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<p id=\"chapter2\">When does the history of Canada begin? \u00a0If we think of Canada\u00a0as a political entity, then we will offer up one kind of answer (although, in all likelihood, we won't agree at the outset on the answer). If we think of Canada as a space roughly defined by our current borders and as a stage on which humans perform, then the answer is necessarily going to take us as deeply into the past as we can go.<\/p>\r\nHaving taken on the question of\u00a0<em>how do we know what it is we think we know? <\/em>in <a href=\"\/preconfederation\/chapter\/1-1-introduction\/\" title=\"Chapter 1\">Chapter 1<\/a>, this chapter tackles the challenge of pushing back the frontier of history. Generations of students learned that the moment of <strong>contact<\/strong>\u00a0between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples in the \"Americas\" marks the end of pre-history in this hemisphere and the beginning of the historical period. But that perspective has changed.\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Explain the various interpretations, scientific and religious, of the origins of indigenous peoples in the New World.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the political, cultural, and social differences between the major eras of\u00a0the pre-contact peoples of Canada.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the political, cultural, and social differences between the groups of the major regions of Canada.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Identify the great empires and confederacies of the pre-contact Americas.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Locate\u00a0the many different peoples of what is now Canada and its borderlands.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the different language groups, the different economic orders of the northlands, and their interconnectedness.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Argue critically\u00a0against notions of \"pan-Indianism\" and speak to the advantages enjoyed by Aboriginal societies in the absence of European contact.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p id=\"chapter2\">When does the history of Canada begin? \u00a0If we think of Canada\u00a0as a political entity, then we will offer up one kind of answer (although, in all likelihood, we won&#8217;t agree at the outset on the answer). 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