<![CDATA[ACADIENS-METIS-SOURIQUOIS.CA - Blog]]>Fri, 23 May 2025 20:58:28 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[News and Reflections:  What happens when you take more than the land can provide? -- May 23, 2025]]>Sat, 24 May 2025 01:58:33 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-what-happens-when-you-take-more-than-the-land-can-provide-may-23-2025"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans."
-- David A. Robertson (author)

Source: Robertson, D. (2020). The barren grounds. Puffin Canada.
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<![CDATA[News and Reflections: Save the date: Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation, with Author Bruce McIvor, Tuesday, May 27, 7-8:30 PM. Central Library, Halifax, NS.]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:50:49 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-save-the-date-indigenous-rights-in-one-minute-what-you-need-to-know-to-talk-reconciliation-with-author-bruce-mcivor-tuesday-may-27-7-830-pm-central-library-halifax-ns
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<![CDATA[News and Reflections: Champlain's Dream (2008) -- April 23, 2025]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:10:33 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-champlains-dream-2008-april-23-2025
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Detail from "Deffaite des Yroquois au Lac de Champlain." Drawn by Samuel de Champlain for his "Voyages" (1613) (Public Domain)
The widely acclaimed book, Champlain's Dream (Fischer, 2008) offers scholars and history enthusiasts a "dramatic and exciting" biography of expert navigator, North American explorer, visionary leader, and the "Father of New France," Samuel de Champlain. 

Architect of a "Grand Design" for New France, which he brought to fruition over the course of three decades, Champlain promoted intermarriage among French colonists and natives of North America, encouraged religious tolerance of Protestants, and aspired to "humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence."

Chapter 9, entitled, "Norumbega," (now known as Maine), brings to light the outcomes of three voyages that took place between 1604 and 1606, led by Champlain, de Mons, and Poutrincourt, respectively, during which time Samuel de Champlain emerged as a leader.

The following quotation from Fischer's book may provide insight as to the primary reason for Champlain's success as the leader of his mission, while his contemporaries failed so miserably in theirs. "He [Champlain] approached the Indians with only a few men, and made no display of weapons (though his men were armed and ready on their ship). He sat down with the Indians in another tabagie, took an interest in their ways, honored their customs, and treated them with respect."

An online version of the book (Fischer, D. H. (2008). Champlain's dream. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Simon & Schuster) and Chapter 9 may be found here.

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<![CDATA[Save the Date! The Oceanographic Environmental Research Society (OERS) is having a Job Fair/Open House -- April 26, 2025]]>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:12:51 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/save-the-date-the-oceanographic-environmental-research-society-oers-is-having-a-job-fairopen-house-april-26-2025OERS Summer Job Fair 2025
April 26, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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<![CDATA[Oceanographic Environmental Research Society (OERS) Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois (AAMS): Summer Research Technician 2025]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:22:30 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/oceanographic-environmental-research-society-oersassociation-des-acadiens-metis-souriquois-aams-summer-research-technician-2025Summer Research Technician 2025 Job Post
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
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