Comments on: Win Osheaga Tickets - Colonial Guilt Time!

By: amy

amy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:50:01 +0000

1. Mohawk language.
2. Means “People of the shaking hands.”

I think its a pretty good choice for a name of a Montreal festival.

By: Name Name

Name Name — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:54:35 +0000

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”.

By: Dango

Dango — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:59 +0000

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

By: Nadia

Nadia — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:49:16 +0000

1. Mohawk.
2. People of the shaking hands.

By: Risa Dickens

Risa Dickens — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:21:40 +0000

hmm nice! also.. interesting, some different websites have different answers then the one the osheaga site lists..

By: julie

julie — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:04:13 +0000

1. Mohawk language
2. Osheaga means people that are shaking hands.. as spoken by the Mohawks upon meeting Cartier

By: adam

adam — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:02:46 +0000

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