Win Osheaga Tickets - Colonial Guilt Time!
by Risa Dickens
As Alanah put it in an earlier post in this contest, Ile St Helene, where Osheaga is held: “has been around for millenia - it was named by Samuel de Champlain back in 1641, in honour of his fiancée (is it just me or is there something kind of weird about referring to your girlfriend as Sainte so-and-so?). Before that it was the site of an Native American burial ground.“
So here’s your question for the day, it’s a 3 part-er and you can post 2 out of 3 answers to gain entry into Friday’s raffle for the pair of weekend tickets to Osheaga…
1. what language does the word Osheaga come from?
2. what does the word mean? (we will accept a range of answers from expert to hilarious)
3. name one way that Native land was transferred to European ownership during colonization (and include a url for reference).
By the way- The raffle is going to be held during the MOnthly Mess show, and during the Mess and Pre-Mess 5 a 7, raffle tickets will also be on sale. So for those of you uninspired to answer questions, come fork out 2 bucks and you’ll be in the runnin..
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Published on: August 27th, 2007
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1. Osheaga comes from the Mohawk language
2. From the Osheaga website, the word means “O she ha ga” which meant people of shaking hands
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm [permalink]
1. Mohawk language
2. Osheaga means people that are shaking hands.. as spoken by the Mohawks upon meeting Cartier
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 6:04 pm [permalink]
hmm nice! also.. interesting, some different websites have different answers then the one the osheaga site lists..
Posted on August 27th, 2007 at 9:21 pm [permalink]
1. Mohawk.
2. People of the shaking hands.
Posted on August 28th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [permalink]
2. Osheaga comes from the Mohawk for “people of the shaking hands”. Cartier and his crew were all junkies, according to legend.
3. Negotiations and treaties were used to transfer land from the Natives to European colonizers. “In some instances, the government simply used treaties to create the appearance of legality for what was actually a confiscation of land at gunpoint. In other parts of the country, treaties were part of a long process of diplomacy, accommodation, and confrontation that lasted for decades.” (That’s actually in reference to American colonization, but I doubt it would have been vastly different here in Canada.) http://law.jrank.org/pages/12523/Native-Americans.html
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 8:50 am [permalink]
1. Osheaga comes from the Mohawk tongue.
2. It refers to the Mohawk people’s first encounter with Cartier, where he was either trying to greet them with a handshake or was gesturing at something; a show of manual excitement that prompted the name “O she ha ga”, or “people of the shaking hands”.
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 8:54 am [permalink]
1. Mohawk language.
2. Means “People of the shaking hands.”
I think its a pretty good choice for a name of a Montreal festival.
Posted on August 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm [permalink]