General Indigenous
How did Indigenous nations travel along their trade routes?
What structures did the Inuit live in during the winter?
Igloos
What structures did the Algonquin live in?
Wigwams.
What structures did the Iroquois typically live in?
Longhouses.
What was the primary resource Europeans traded Indigenous nations for?
Furs.
How did Indigenous nations transmit knowledge, culture and history?
Oral traditions
What way of life did the Inuit live?
Nomadic.
What way of life did the Algonquin live?
Nomadic.
What way of life did the Algonquin live?
Sedentary.
Who were the first Europeans to discover North America?
The Vikings.
What was main reason why Indigenous nations traded amongst each other?
To gain access to the resources that they did not have in their territories.
What was the Inuit's main source of sustenance?
Seal hunting.
Who's role was it it to make daily decisions for Algonquin communities?
Chief's.
What was the technique that the Iroquois used to cultivate new farmland?
Slash and burn.
Hostilities between Cartier and which Indigenous nation attributed to his failure to set up the colony "Charlesbourg-Royal" in 1542?
Iroquois.
What purpose did a Wampum Belt serve?
It represented the terms of of an alliance made between two nations.
What was the Inuit's social structure?
Patrilineal.
What was the Algonquin's social structure?
Patrilineal.
What was the Iroquois's social structure?
Matrilineal.
What year did the Franco-Aboriginal Alliance take place?
1603.
What supernatural powers did Shamans possess?
Predicting the future through interpreting dreams as well as visions and warding off evil.
What is an Ulu?
A tool to cut up and skin animals.
How many individuals comprised an Algonquin hunting group?
10 - 20.
What were the four levels of the Iroquoian political structure?
The clan, the village, the nation, and the confederacy.
What was the name of the Iroquoian Chief that Cartier abducted in 1534 and took back to France?
Donnacona of Stadacona.