Indigenous Peoples 1
True or False: Indigenous peoples are the original inhabitants of Canada.
True!
How did Indigenous peoples get food?
They hunted, fished, and gathered plant foods.
True or False: The Early Settlers are people who arrived to Canada from Asia.
False!
The Early Settlers are people who arrived to Canada from Europe.
How did the Early Settlers get food?
True or False: Black Slaves are people from Africa who chose to come to Canada to work as slaves for the White Early Settlers.
False!
Black Slaves are people from Africa who were taken from their homes and forced to work as slaves for the White Early Settlers in Canada.
What clothes did Indigenous peoples wear?
They wore animal skin clothes.
How did Indigenous peoples travel?
They travelled in canoes.
Name two different groups of Early Settlers.
Two different groups of Early Settlers are the French and British.
What clothes did the Early Settlers wear?
They wore woven clothes.
What is a slave?
A slave is someone who is owned by someone else. A slave is considered their owner’s property.
Did Indigenous children go to school?
No, they did not go to school. They learned by watching and helping their families.
Name one thing that Indigenous peoples traded with the Early Settlers.
They traded furs.
How did the Early Settlers travel?
They travelled in boats.
Why did the Early Settlers come to Canada?
They came to Canada to get more land for farming and make more money.
What were Black Slaves forced to work as?
They were forced to work as house servants and farm workers.
Name three challenges that the Indigenous peoples faced when the Early Settlers arrived to Canada and took their land.
They had less land to build homes, hunt, and travel.
Name one thing that Indigenous peoples taught the Early Settlers.
They taught the Early Settlers which plants were good for eating.
Did Early Settler children go to school?
Some of them went to school, but many of them had to stay home and help their families on the farm.
Name one thing that the Early Settlers traded with Indigenous peoples.
They traded metal.
Name three challenges that Black Slaves faced.
They were separated from their families, they had to do hard work for long hours, and they were not paid for their work.
Where did the government force some Indigenous peoples to move?
They forced some Indigenous peoples to move to First Nation Reserves.
Name three different Indigenous groups.
Three different Indigenous groups are the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Anishinaabe.
Where did the Early Settlers settle?
They settled near fertile land and lakes.
Name three challenges that the Early Settlers faced to settle in Canada.
They had to travel far on very long voyages to get to Canada, they had to clear land and build farms, and they had to grow and make their own food.
Who are Black Loyalists?
They are Black Slaves who fought for Britain in the American Revolutionary War because the British government promised to give them land and freedom.