An Alliance with the Huron Empire

The Hurons were a group of First Nations people who were in an alliance with Champlain. They were closely related to the Iroquois, but had become their enemies.

1. What is an alliance? What does this word mean?Great traders themselves, the Hurons navigated the rivers of Central Canada and were very prosperous. They would become the leading source of furs for the French.

Those two graspable hands reveal what is the alliance.

The alliance means a political party formed by the allying of separate parties or form to cooperate and relationship.

2. Why would Champlain want to form an alliance with the Hurons?

Look back the former lessons that I learned about exploration. The Native people are always plain and backward. They believed the explorers all the times and exchange the valuable furs with them on the unfair situations. Those factors let Champlain realize to cooperate with them. If the Huron become to alliance with the French, he would win more profits and honor than before. He always wanted to monopolize the fur trade in his life, so this point of method is advantageous for him.

3. This is a picture of Champlain and his Huron allies on the left fighting the Iroquois. This is one of the earliest images of Europeans and First Nations people interacting.

a. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences. Look carefully at the picture.
Depend on the introduction I knew the left-hand soldiers are come from Huron and French. It looks like the number of soldiers on the left hand is not as many as the right hand. But when I paid attention on it, there was a different point of view between those two armies. The person who is standing in the middle wears different clothes and he is holding a different weapon that against with others. It is a GUN!

b. Do you think this is a realistic image of the situation? Explain why or why not in 5-8 sentences.

I disagree the image of the situation is realistic. Looking at the middle soldier, he is standing in the sea of arrows. How could he still alive and shooting gun to the Iroquois? Even if he wears a suit of armor, how could he make sure the arrows won’t stab into his back or head? The picture looks like both of the armies are shooting at him. Also, this picture is not like the real battleground. The soldiers are in a good order. They don’t rush to the enemy and kill them, but stand in two parts and shoot to others. The most unrealistic part is there are only dead bodies of Iroquois but none of Huron or French!

4. The Hurons had many economic advantages because of their geographic location and territory. They were located on the southern shore of Georgian Bay, where the fishing was excellent.
a. Find a map of Georgian Bay. Explain where this bay is.

If you quick on the picture and open it up. The numbers show the clearly position of the bays. The Georgian Bay is the number 2201 and it’s near the Lake Huron. The Georgian Bay is the main blue part in the middle. There are increasing amount of lakes and sound around it.

b. Translate the word bay.

The word bay means a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards or a recess in the mountain range.

5 . Find a photograph of Georgian Bay that you like. Explain why you like it in 3-5 sentences.The vegetation of this region includes mixed forests, meadows, and fields. The sandy soil was perfect for planting corn, squash, pumpkins, and beans.

6. Take a look at this piece of Canadian Art called "Stormy Weather". The artist is Frederick Varley. He illustrated the stormy weather of Georgian Bay.

a. How do you feel when you see this painting? Explain in 5-8 sentences. Tell me why you feel that way.

7. This is a poem by A.J.M Smith. It was put together with this image on a past provincial exam.a. When you read this poem, how do you feel about the Canadian landscape? Explain in 10-12 sentences. Think deep and be creative.

The Lonely LandA.J.M. Smith
Cedar and jagged fir
uplift sharp barbs
against the gray
and cloud-piled sky;
and in the bay
blown spume and windrift
and thin, bitter spray
snap
at the whirling sky;
and the pine trees
lean one way.


A wild duck calls
to her mate,
and ragged
and passionate tones
stagger and fall,
and recover,
and stagger and fall,
on these stones -
are lost
in the lapping of water
on smooth, flat stones.

This is a beauty
of dissonance,
this resonance
of stony strand,
this smoky cry
curled over a black pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pines
and curdles the sky
from the north.

This is the beauty
of strength
broken by strength
and still strong

8. What did you learn in this lesson? Explain in 5-8 sentences.