Homes
This domed house was called a wigwam by this First Nation Group.
Who are the Algonquin people?
The Inuit live in this northern cold, rocky, and frigid landscape.
Where is the Arctic region?
The Iroquois used the bounty of resources offered by these massive bodies of fresh water.
What are the Great Lakes?
Birchbark was used to make this small boat used by the Algonquin people.
What are Birchbark canoes?
Longhouses consisted of multiple families all related on the mother's side (matrilineal) and was led by an important female known as this.
What is a clan mother?
Who are the Iroquois?
The nomadic interior Plains people followed the herd through these prairie provinces.
What is Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba?
This body of water was central to the lives of the Algonquin and Iroquois nations before and during contact and trade with the European explorers.
What is the Hudson Bay?
The interior plains people invented this type of sled to pull heavy objects or to carry people.
What is a travois?
These people are highly valued in all First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities.
Who are elders?
Igloos were used in winters, but in Spring or Summer they would use tents made from skins as temporary shelters.
These provinces all border the Hudson Bay.
What is Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario and Nunavut?
This body of salt water is home to peoples such as the Tlingit, Nisga’a, Haida and Coast Salish of the Northwest Coast.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Inuit people used this boat that was made from driftwood and whalebones.
What is an umiak?
These highly respected leaders are often elected or chosen by clan mothers to lead their tribe/nation.
Who are the tribal Chiefs?
Up to 15 Buffalo hides were used to wrap poles made from pine trees to make this dwelling called a teepee (tipi).
Who are the Plains people?
What provinces are known as the "Maritime" provinces?
What is Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island?
Note: Technically parts of Quebec are also considered a part of the Maritimes.
This ocean has coastlines that run along the Maritime provinces such as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
What is the Atlantic ocean?
Highly recognizable, this art piece from the Northwest Coastal people, consists of symbolic and stylized human, animal, and supernatural forms such as eagles, ravens, bears, etc. which are primarily visual representations of kinship, depicting family crests and clan membership.
What are totem poles?
These nations joined together to strengthen their power against the French and English settlers and included the nations of the Mohawk · Oneida · Onondaga · Cayuga · Seneca · and Tuscarora.
Who is the Six Nation Confederacy?
The wood from cedar trees is strong, lightweight and resistant to rot. Communities along this coast often used wood from the cedar tree to make their homes; known as "plank houses".
Who are the people of the Northwest Coast?
The Iroquois Confederacy consisted of six tribes such as the Mohawk, Oneida, Onodaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora and lived in this region.
What is the Eastern Woodland region?
(Also qualifying answers might be: What is the Great Lakes, Ontario, and up into the United States regions such as New York State.
Lobster, crab, mussles, scallops, cod fish are major natural resources found in these oceans.
What is the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
This form of travel for the Inuit people was fast on snow, efficient, and required no electricity.
What is a dogsled?
Unlike most indigenous peoples, the West Coast nations recognized "ownership" by family groups of certain territories for fishing, housing sites, etc. They also had an inherited class system of nobles, commoners and slaves
Who is the Northwest Coastal people?