Life Before Contact
The group that believed that we all have connections to the land.
Who are the indigenous people?
The path a person takes to transport merchandise across a region.
What is a trade route?
Introduced by Europeans and caused massive population loss where many communities were devastated.
What is disease?
During the early fur trade, this valuable animal pelt was commonly exchanged by Indigenous trappers in return for European goods.
What is beaver pelts?
Trading posts were often built near this natural feature to make travel and transportation of furs easier for voyageurs and Indigenous trappers.
What is a river?
These qualities—wisdom, honesty, and caring for others—were key traits required of people selected for this important community role.
What is a leader of governance?
The first known European to land in North America and therefore starting the British colonization.
Who is John Cabot?
Overcrowding, limited job opportunities, and intense competition within Europe.
What are push factors for the Europeans?
Beaver pelts traded in North America were shipped across the Atlantic, where European makers transformed them into these popular fashion items.
What are fancy clothes and hats?
Europeans often lived in these permanent buildings at trading posts while managing trade and storing goods.
What are log houses/cabins?
Indigenous peoples were not all the same — they were diverse groups with different languages and traditions. Name three types of homes that the Indigenous people would have used.
What are igloos, long houses, and tippees?
Names of the most well-known European explorers that first came to North America. (at least three names to get full points)
John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Henry Kelsey, Simon Fraser, Samuel Hearne, Mathieu Da Costa
When Europeans arrived in North America, this happened as a result, including trade, friendship, and cultural exchanges.
What is new relationships were formed?
Because the fur trade was thriving and voyageurs needed a more convenient, permanent place to exchange goods, these were built along major rivers and travel routes.
What are trading posts?
Trading posts were often designed with this around it so Europeans could store furs and goods safely while Indigenous traders visited.
What is a wooden fence?
Consensus was used by many indigenous communities and is the decision-making approach that valued this.
What is hearing everyone's voice?
The early Europeans main motivation for traveling to new land. (hint: 3 G's and 1 C, 100 points per correct answer)
What are Gold, Glory, God and Curiosity
Disagreements over land and resources sometimes led to this outcome between European settlers and Indigenous peoples.
What is Conflict?
European trade goods created new opportunities for the Indigenous people but also increased dependence on items that Indigenous communities had not used before. These trade goods are.... (100 points per right answer)
What are metal, tools, cloth and blankets?
Indigenous peoples typically set up these temporary sites near trading posts during the trading season to participate in trade.
What are camps?
Woodland peoples, Arctic peoples, Plains people, Northwest coast people and Eastern people
Who are the groups of indigenous people that lived on this land before it was called Canada?
A skilled African interpreter, considered the first recorded Black person in Canada and played an important role in early exploration and cultural contact.
Who is Mathieu De Costa?
When Europeans brought weapons and soldiers to North America, this made fights over land, resources, and trade have this result.
What is become more dangerous?
As trappers competed to collect beaver fur, this happened to the animal population, making it harder to find and hunt them.
What is fewer animals to hunt?
These were built as permanent places so that Europeans and Indigenous peoples could trade more conveniently and efficiently.
What are Trading post communities?