Michigan's First People
Native Americans and Fur Traders
Native American Life
Michigan Tribes
Gifts from the Tribes
100
This is the continent that the ancestors of the first Michigan people came from.
What is Asia?
100
The country that was home to the early fur traders who came to Michigan.
What is France
100
The place in which the men were usually working.
What is away from the village hunting or trading?
100
This tribe lived near Laingsburg.
Who are the Potawatomi?
100
The person that Native American storytellers spoke of in their legends.
Who is Hiawatha?
200
This is how long ago the first people to reach Michigan
What is between 11,000 and 12,000 years ago?
200
These would be items the Ojibwa got FROM the fur traders.
What are bullets and hatchet?
200
The ingredient used to make flour.
What is dried corn?
200
This tribes' name means to trade which comes from the word "adawa"
Who are the Ottawa?
200
The other name for Indian corn.
What is maize?
300
When the tribes lived in Michigan by themselves, this is how many people lived here.
What is 35,000 and 45,000?
300
These would be examples of what a Native American would trade to the fur traders.
What are beaver furs, deer skins, muskrat furs, or fox skins
300
The people that would make the clothing, make the food, and take care of the kids.
What are the women?
300
This tribe forced the Ottawa to leave the east and move to the west side of the state.
Who are the Iroquois?
300
These are inventions that Native Americans gave us.
What are canoes, snowshoes, and toboggans?
400
These would be two things the Ojibwa got from the fur traders.
What are gun powder and metal pots?
400
This would be the name the Ojibwa called themselves.
What is Anishnabek or Anishnabeg
400
The people who would find the food, fight for the tribe, and trade.
What are the men?
400
The name for the Great Lakes tribes because they lived in the forests and woods.
What is the Woodland Indians?
400
The names of some towns the Indians gave us.
What are Mackinac Island, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Pontiac, and Saginaw?
500
The convenience trading things the Native Americans didn't have gave them.
What is an easier life?
500
The three tribes in the Three Fires group
What are the Potawatomi, Ojibwa, and the Ottawa.
500
This was scarce for the tribes in the winter months.
What is food?
500
The two types of homes the Three Fires and the Huron lived in.
What are wigwams and longhouses.
500
This is what the tribes were before the Europeans came because they didn't rely on other people to live.
What is self-sufficient?
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