Plains People
This Confederacy consisted of the Piegan people (Pikuni), the Blood people (Kainai), the Blackfoot People (Siksika), and the Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) People.
What is the Blackfoot Confederacy?
This First Nation groups name is derived from the word "Ozhibii'oweg" meaning "Those who keep Records of a Vision" referring to their form of pictorial writing.
What is 'Ojibway'?
There were six annual ceremonies amongst these people, and they were all related to this.
What are the corn crops?
A common term for Athapascan people meaning "the people".
What is 'Dënë'?
The Inuit used to be called Eskimos, which came from a Native American word for this.
What is 'eater of raw meat'?
A baby would be placed in this type of bag, and kept alongside the mother as she worked.
What is a moss bag?
There was a belief in a primary spirit or animating force that encompassed all existence. Algonquians called this animating spirit 'Kitchie Manitou' or ________________.
What is 'The Great Spirit'?
The bark of this type of tree was also used to make canoes, although not as light and fast as birch bark.
What is elm bark?
For all those in the Subarctic, life depended on the movements of this animal.
What is the barren ground caribou?
The name given to the sub-soil which stays frozen year-round in the arctic.
What is 'permafrost'?
What is the buffalo?
This slender type of canoe was a main source of transportation during the summer.
What is a 'birch bark' canoe?
This was among the top reasons why a village would be moved. Some villages lasted up to 30 years.
What is poor soil conditions?
What is walking?
As compared to kayaks, these types of boats used by the Inuit were larger and more open.
What are 'umiaks'?
This was a food made by the Plains People that could be preserved for years.
What is 'pemmican'?
Even before the arrival of Europeans, trade between neighbouring Eastern Woodlands Algonquian groups was common. This was the most important trade item?
What is the beaver?
These three crops were often called the 'Three Sisters' due to their importance.
What are corn, beans and squash?
Medicine people conducted this ceremony, where spirits of people or animals were conjured for curing and prophecy in a tipi.
What is the 'shaking tent' ceremony?
What is 'animism'?
These were made up of 50 to 100 members, connected by marriage or kinship.
What are 'bands'?
This was the name given to the dome-shaped structure that Eastern Woodlands Algonquian groups lived in.
What is the 'wigwam'?
What is the 'Iroquois Confederacy'?
Descent for the Athapascans or Dene is connected to the female line; groups were organized into matrilineal bands or clans called these.
What are moieties?
There was a real sense of this in Inuit culture, often sharing food and resources between families.
What is 'a sense of community'?