Metis (Matey)

Hi Bloggers,

I made this entry to clear up what Metis means, so that you guys dont have to waste class time trying to do so much research about them.

A Metis is a person who has one Aboriginal parent ( Cree, Inuit, Ojibway, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Menominee, and other Indigenous Canadians) and one European parent. Back in Riel's time the Metis were very bad ly looked upon. Probably because of the fact that most of the time they were a result of the European (mainly Father) raping the Aboriginal wife, and then the father walking out of the family. Long story short the Metis were treated as outacasts.
More Information can be found on (wikipedia)


Talinho

Assignment #7

Hey Bloggers,

This is my assignment #7 blog.

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4.) a.)Which category of Canadian Personalities interested you the most? Did you like the "we inspired", "we founded", "we fought", "we built" or "we governed" section the best? Why?

4.)a.) The section we governed interested me the most because of the people they spoke about and what they did for Canada. I learned a lot from this website, because I don’t know all that much about Canadian history because I just moved here in 2005 from Germany.

4.)b.) Which personality interested you the most? Why?

4.)b.) My favourite personality was Pierre Elliott Trudeau. I liked him because of what he did for Canada. He fought for English and French to have the same power as official languages of Canada. I was never really interested in what Trudeau did for Canada, whenever my mom would tell me about it I'd be half listening (don't tell her if you meet her:). But now that I know about his achievements I want to learn more. I think that the highlight of his time as prime minister was the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

4.)c.) 3 more influential Canadians that I think should be on the site.

4.)c.) It's a hard to pick only 3 people but I think that John Joseph Kelso should definately be there in the section we built. I think he should be there because he is the founder of the humane society. I think he should be in we built because he helped "build" a new opinion about cruelty to animals. Another reason why he should be there is because of his mentality about cruelty towards children. One of his nicknames was "Child Saver". Wikipedia said that "his child saving days began with him having little sympathy for parents who exploited their children but he was optimistic that, if warned about the consequences, they would change."

Another person that I think should be on this website is Mathieu Da Costa. I think he should be there because he was interpreter on Samuel De Champlain's ship, and he was crucial in trade with some of the Aboriginal people but wasn’t even mentioned once in his section. Da Costa was said to have known "Dutch, English French, Portuguese and Pidgin Basque, the dialect that many aboriginals used for trading purposes". In my opinion he should be in the section we built, just like Samuel De Champlain, I think he should also be mentioned in Samuel De Champlain's section as the interpreter on his ship. I think he should be in "we Built" because he helped Samuel De Champlain negotiate with the aboriginal people, I think this is important because some of the things he did to end up in the "we built" section would have probably been impossible without an interpreter like Mathieu Da Costa.

My last pick for the website would have to be John McCrae. I think he should be in the section we fought because he was a soldier in WWI and was a surgeon in "The Battle of Ypres". "He is best known for writing the poem, In Flanders Fields". This poem is very famous and a lot of people know it or at least know of it.

7.)Which History Maker Did You Have the Most in Common With?

I had the Most in common with Thomas (Tom) Longboat. I was not able to figure out who it was with the given clues because I have never heard of him but when I saw the picture that the spotlight landed on I thought it would end up being Terry Fox. Some of the things that we have in common with each other is that we have a language that is not official for Canada as a first language, but had to learn English some other time in life, we are also very passionate about the sports we play (or in his case played), and have the same attitude about giving up, UNACCEPTABLE!!! Another thing that we have in common is that both of our names have a meaning in a different language (his being in Onondaga and mine being in Luganda… I think).The main thing that we had in common though was that we both went to school (serious statement, some people never went to school before), and we both have a nickname ( his was Tom and mine is Talinho).
Some of the things that we didn’t have in common or were different from each other with included our birthdays mine is on May 2nd and his was on June 4th. Another thing was that he liked running handball and lacrosse as some of his favourite sports while the only sport that I like or am any good at is soccer. Our first and last names are also completely different, my first name is Tale and my last name is Muweke, while his first name is Thomas and his last name was Longboat. But the thing that I realized right away was that he only went to school for 5 years while I’ve been going to school for 7 and a little bit already.

8.)In 100 years from now what will I be known for in Canadian History?

I was the best soccer player in my generation of the game. I was a pest to defenders and Goalkeepers would tremble when they saw me coming towards the net. I was voted best by coaches players and everyone knew my name ,by the time I was 22 (the year 2018) I conquered the world of soccer by Winning the World Cup with Germany as a team, but as far as individual awards go I cleaned up by winning the Golden Boot (most goals of the tournament), The Golden Ball (best player of the tournament), and the award for best young player of the tournament. The next year I conquered European club competition by winning the Champion’s League with the team that I supported since I was a child. In 2020 I was placed into FIFA 100 (Pele’s list of the best 100 players of all time), people were already starting to compare me to my Manchester Untied teammate Cristiano Ronaldo when he was at his peak, but I always knew that I would surpass him. All of the big teams were asking for me to join their team, offering insane amounts of money for me, a 24 year old soccer. But I turned them each down 1 after the other, just because I loved playing for Manchester United so much. That summer my journey to winning every trophy available was almost completed by me winning UEFA EURO 2020. In 2021 I was getting ready for the World Club championship, which my team Manchester United had qualified for by winning the Champion’s league. By the time I was done preparing properly we had already won the competition, and were crowned world club champions! This season went pretty well with us winning our 3rd consecutive league title, and defending our Champions league title, but it’s the next season that was my greatest one of them all. We won all of the domestic competitions, were able to defend the Champion’s League title again, and I won my second consecutive World Cup trophy (World Cup is every 4 years) and I was still world’s best player and getting closer to being at the top of the list in history. The next seasons went almost the exact same as the previous ones. I ended up playing my whole professional career for Manchester United, and retired in the year 2031.
Why would kids learning about CANADIAN history learn a bout my career? That is a good question with an easy answer. Although I was born in Germany and lived there for 9 years I lived in Canada for a while as well, and after my career was over the first thing I thought about was helping soccer in Canada. I spent my whole time in Canada complaining (in my mind) about the lack of soccer in this…nice country. So the first thing I did was go back to Canada to do coaching and scouting for the CSA (Canadian Soccer Association ). But afterwards I ended up going to Germany to coach the national team who needed a new coach. Canada gradually change its attitude towards soccer once it realized that it wasn’t all that bad at it but just never really gave it a chance (funny off topic story if there was a school in Germany that had school teams and didn’t have a soccer team, it would probably have to close down because of either the number of complaints or nobody showing up for the first 100 days of school)

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