The article, “The Ceremony of Marriage”, mainly talks about the marriage life between different cultures such as Aboriginal versus European and French Roman Catholic versus English Protestant. In the first part of the chapter was focused on the mixed marriage between First Nations and non-First Nations. The both cultures have a different tradition when it comes to marriage. In white culture, they had their ritual ceremony in a Roman Catholic. In contrast, the other culture had also few ritual ceremonies, but the part saying that they are married is when the father of the bride covers them with a blanket around their shoulders. Henriette Forget pointed out the father sell their daughters in exchange for horses. Basically, parents’ consent depended …show more content…
Most people ended up having more than one partner in their lifetime. Later on, there was a criminal law prohibiting polygamy as for the Euro-Canadian or the Aboriginal. As Alexander mentioned in the text Christian had a belief that marriage was only between one man and one woman, but in the case of Aboriginal marriage was not seen as important as Christian seen it. In European culture, the children grow under a patriarchal system, whereas in the indigenous family the children follow the root of their mother. At the end of the day, the children were raised in a white culture. In Cree tradition, women were conceiving an average of four children, but in the European tradition, they give birth to eight or twelve children. In the second part of the chapter, the author elaborated on the mixed marriage between Catholics and Protestants, but more precisely on the parental consent. In Quebec, the age of consent for women was twenty-five and for men thirty under the French civil law and under the English common law it was twenty-one years old. Women could get married at 12 years old and men at 14 years old, but under the consent of their