History 100

Uncertain Have you ever experience living under colonization? As the matter of fact, Macao, where I was born and raised at was colonized by Portugal from the mid 16th century until year of 1999. On December 20, 1999, Macao was transferred back to China, and that’s where the uncertain began. Since the past experience that I had with living in a colony, and the supporting source that I found from the book The Jesuit Relation written by Allan Greer, I think the native agency was very uncertain about the European colonization. Under my definition, agency means an organization with a group of people who are trying to protect or taking care of the same goal. In the situation of European colonization, New France was the native agency, they are trying to protect their own from France since they are not sure what was going to happen to them after they secured. Instead of secured to France, they created their own agency, “they established a place for themselves in the existing native alliance system.” (94) For the native people, one of the reasons they are resisting to obey is due to the fear of uncertainty. From the peace negotiation at three rivers, the author noted that Sieur de Chamflour said to the ambassadors once “they should consider themselves at home here among us, that they had nothing to fear, that they were in their own house.” (97) By the way Sieur de Chamflour said, he was trying to convince the ambassadors that they had nothing to fear; but obviously, he said that because he knew those native people have fear in them. It is not easy to adopt the new life, and live by the new rules; it takes time to go through all those transformations. Therefore, their reaction of resistance over colonization was come from the fear of uncertainty. Second of all, rumor can be harmful sometimes. When Macao was transferred back to China, there’s lots of rumor such as our currency will wroth less since we were no longer using our own currency. But China wants to clear the entire rumor and transferred Macau back into their territory; they promised that they allow us to operate with a high degree of autonomy until at least year of 2049. Same thing happen to the native agency, they received the fault information from the translate person. You can tell by what Kiotseaeton said, “to say to that captain who speaks to us that he tells a great falsehood with respect to us; at least it is certain that what he says is not true.”(97) Since they have never been to the country, what the spokesman told them are the only source they have, that’s why they built up a wall and resisted the colonization. In conclusion, as I stated in the previous paragraph, I think the idea of Native agency in the face of European colonization are fair, doubt, and uncertainty lead to resistance of obey.