Certificate in the Study of State Violence (War, Atrocity, and Genocide) - Canada’s Forgotten War: Obwandiyag and the Defence of Turtle Island

HIST 3306  Canada’s Forgotten War: Obwandiyag and the Defence of Turtle Island

Prerequisites:

Twelve credits of History with at least 3 credits at the 2000-level; or any 54 credits completed

Antirequisites:

HIST 3147 taught as Pontiac’s War in 19SS or 20SS

Hours:

36 hours per term

Credits:

3

Description:

Students examine the political network of Indigenous nations in the Great Lakes region who joined together in 1763 to stop unilateral British actions in their territories. Thirteen Indigenous nations launched coordinated attacks against eleven British forts, destroying eight and immobilizing three. Obwandiyag’s War forced the British to acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty in the Treaty of Niagara. While often forgotten, this historical resistance remains pertinent in Canadian courts today.