This assignment was interesting because the resulting belief after looking through all the documents on this website could have gone either way. I think that my group would have gotten through the assignment a lot faster had there been more people in our group present, but despite the time crunch Brayden and I worked well together and as efficiently as possible. We both found it challenging to choose which documents to use, but chose to stray from newspaper media because it was most likely dramatized, and a lot of information articles were revealed as rumors in the following issue. We both agreed that the Chilcotin event was in fact not a war based on the information that we read. The documents we read proved that the Europeans were prepared for a war, but did not have to take the measure they’d planned on taking had there been a war – proving that a war never happened. We saw it as a retaliation of the Indigenous peoples against the European workers because of a conflict of interest over territory.
I was interested in this historic event because I did not know that this happened, and was surprised to hear of conflicts arising this far west in that time period. It was also interesting because it was so close to here. Being from a small, isolated town I don’t get many opportunities to connect to historic events to where I live, so for that reason I may have found this more intriguing than most.