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This event was a turning point because this was the first time the first nations people had been regularly exposed to Europeans. This brought a new vulnerability to the first nations as they had never come in contact with some of the diseases the Europeans carried. That being said they had no way to fight the disease with there medicine which allowed many tribes to be wiped out completely. This event has changed the way they lived, their culture and there population in many ways. Many cultures and histories dead with tribes as they did not write down there history and beliefs. population plummeted as whole tribes dead quickly from contact.

As a result, many died and a lot of knowledge/culture was lost. This lead to the decline in first nation ways as they started to become more and more like Europeans to survive to what we have current day first nations, finally being able to repair themselves.

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This helps my to understand why the First people weren't too keen on the European peoples. Not only were they taking over their land to exploit the resources, now they were spreading diseases such as influenza and small pox among the First people's populations that thier immune systems could not handle.

As a result, the overall population of the First peoples declined at an alarming rate. They had absolutely no way of curing the diseases when they first arrived which made matters worse. It was much harder for them to thrive when they were constantly being protective about their own selves because no one wanted to contract any of those diseases.

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This event is important because it affected the lifestyle, population, and culture of the first nations. For example, disease caused a sharp decline of population for the first nation’s people, many of which were elders, the “knowledge keepers” in the community. When they passed away, it often meant losing cultural ties to the community and losing the knowledge they had to share. Their lifestyle would also change as they were focused on saving people and preparing for the next wave of illness rather than focusing on the tasks at hand such as hunting, building, etc, etc.

As a result many people lost their family members and loved ones. This would have been a very traumatic time for the first people as they didn’t know how to stop the disease and they didn’t know what was causing it. However over time they built up a immunity and began to thrive as a community again

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This event is important because it changed the lives of the First Peoples. Europeans brought over a foreign disease that caused a significant difference in the initial population. It is important because many people died from the incurable disease and others even - possibly - died from exposure of mercury, a toxic substance; all to find a cure. The cure was probably worse than the disease, because it wasn’t even a cure; it killed them. I predict that the Europeans (in the Old World) did, in fact, transfer over the disease. If the First Peoples were living in their regular lifestyle, and were healthy, and suddenly became sick when Europeans came, this would tell us that it was possibly a coincidence, or maybe they were the ones that brought over the disease.

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When the Europeans arrived, and made contact with the first nations people they had various diseases that the first nations knew nothing about, such as small pox and influenza. These diseases have been in European countries for hundreds of years, but have not yet been exposed to first nation peoples. If this event did not happen, the first nation peoples wouldn't have had to try and deal with diseases that they had no knowledge of prior to the Europeans arriving, and their population would not have been impacted at all.

I think after the first nation peoples were exposed to these diseases, and started declining in population because of it, they were rushing to try and find a cure. They probably thought the disease/sickness was curable with the herbs and plants that they already had, but it wasn't enough. It is likely that after the panic of the unknown diseases, the first nation peoples lost over half of their population but eventually found a cure for the diseases to prevent deaths from happening in the future.

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The outbreak of European diseases such as smallpox and influenza throughout the First Nations people was devastating in its amount of fatality. The First Nations people had become accustomed to dealing with and treating the ailments of their own continent. When foreigners came with several evolved and more harmful diseases the aboriginal did not have the technology to cure themselves and this resulted in the death of masses. Similar to the bubonic plague brought back to Europe from Asian ships, the aboriginals widely and indiscriminately killed by virus. The introduction of STI's was also a new concept to the aboriginals. They did not know that they could transmit these diseases sexually. Unwittingly diseases such as syphilis were transferred rapidly among the population. The lack of medical advancement among the people left them unprotected to death by disease

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This event is important because the First Peoples were exposed to a different danger than they were used to. I predict that during this time, the First Peoples panicked and tried to find a cure but were unable to. The First Peoples would've asked guidance from the Creator, found herbs and made medicine that could potentially slow the pain. Even though they lost many people, they were probably able to find a solution to avoid the dangers of the diseases because despite losing more than half of their population they were able to survive. Thus, I came to the conclusion that they were able to find some kind of "cure" to survive through the diseases that the Europeans brought

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Reflection Response first contact diseases