Terminology
Lands set aside by the federal government for the use and benefit of a First Nations community.
What are reserves?
They were responsible for hunting, trapping, and clearing fields for farming.
Who are the men?
The Metis are people of First Nations and this heritage.
What is European?
The Inuit people lived in this often misspelled region where there are only two seasons – winter and summer.
What is the Arctic?
The belief that white people are a superior race and should therefore dominate society.
What is white supremacy?
A type of lineage that is passed down through the women of the family.
What is matrilineal?
They cared for the farming crops and collected food such as berries in the forest.
Who are the women?
The Métis were first established in the Red River region currently known as this province.
What is Manitoba?
In the winter, the Inuit built and lived in these dwellings that are made from frozen snow.
What are igloos?
A system where people are ranked one above the other according to status.
What is hierarchy?
What is egalitarian?
They were well-respected wisdom keepers who taught children traditions and helped to raise them.
Who are elders?
The hunting of this animal was a big part of their lifestyle.
What is buffalo?
Most Inuit people were this type of hunter and gatherers, which meant that they had to keep moving to follow the herds of animals for food.
What is nomadic?
In 1608, this man arrived in current day Quebec City, established a trading post and colonized a new French settlement, that he called “New France.”
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
These groups provided structure into a community's roles and responsibilities and helped govern them.
What are clans?
Throughout the year, the Haudenosaunee held this many ceremonies that followed the seasonal changes in the year.
What is 13?
Their clothing was inspired by French-Canadian traders of this item.
What is fur?
As hunters and gatherers, they lived mainly on meat, such as caribou, and this type of marine mammal.
What is a whale?
This group of people was required to pay rent and taxes for the land and also had to give a portion of the grain harvest to the seigneur.
What are the habitants?
When a foreign power invades and dominates land inhabited by Indigenous peoples.
What is Colonization?
The Haudenosaunee Clan is matrilineal and is represented by different birds and animals that are divided into these three elements.
What are land, water, and air?
While the men were hunting, the women often took care of the children, prepared food, made and mended clothing and this type of footwear.
What are snow shoes?
Instead of there being one person to make decisions, Inuit adults would discuss problems and solutions and then come to decisions through consensus.
What is egalitarian?
This system was a way to divide land into plots that ran along waterways, such as the St. Lawrence River.
What is the seigneurial system?