Language Families
The linguistic group that is matrilineal.
What is Iroquoian?
Equality, liberty, sharing, and respect (among others).
What are important values in Indigenous society?
Another word for trade, when goods and/or services are exchanged.
What is bartering?
What are God, gold, and glory?
This linguistic group lives in the northern part of the continent.
Who are the Inuit?
Information was communicated orally (not in writing) in traditional Indigenous society.
What is oral tradition?
Trade often took place at this spot.
Where rivers meet
The French explorer who first travelled to Quebec in 1534.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Tent structure lived in by the Algonquian people.
What is a wigwam?
He is the link between the earthly world and the spirit world.
Who is a shaman?
Objects that Indigenous peoples received from the Europeans in exchange for fur (name at least two!).
What were glass beads, axes, knives, hammers, nails, and clothing?
Finding resources and finding a route to Asia were the goals of this person's voyage.
Who was Jacques Cartier? (first two voyages)
Who are the women?
This value is seen in the absence of private land ownership.
What is sharing?
Aside from trade, this is the reason alliances were made.
What is defense / military?
This is the industry that first caused contact between Indigenous peoples and Europeans.
What is fishing?
Bands of 12 to 15 people in winter and 100 to 300 in summer.
What was the population of traditional Algonquian nations?
In your own words, explain the difference between nomadic and sedentary.
Nomadic groups moved around while sedentary groups stayed in one place.
In your own words, explain how the Indigenous way of life changed when the Europeans started trading with Indigenous groups.
In your own words, describe the outcome of Jacques Cartier's voyages.
Jacques Cartier's voyages were not successful overall...