Definitions
What is active citizenship
Taking responsibility and getting involved to make your school, community, country, and world the kind of place you want to live.
Consensus
An agreement reached by the whole group
Where did they live?
East coast woodlands and seacoast
Where did they live?
N and S of the Saint Lawrence river
Where did they live
Wooded country N and central Ontario - S Manitoba
Alliance
Core values
Important ideas or beliefs about how people should live
Did they stay or travel for food?
Was their primary source of food from hunting or from farming?
Farming. They also got food from hunting and gathering but they were Canada's first farming family.
What was their main source of food
Wild rice harvesters and huntering AND maple syrup
Clan mother (Of which group also)
The headof the Haudenosaunee longhouse
Ethnocentric
Belief that one's own ethic group is superior than others
How did they govern their society? AND what was Role of women
Grand council helped solve problem AND had voice in government /hunters/gatherers/homemakers
What are the 3 sisters? AND WHAT WAS ROLE OF WOMEN
Corn, bean and squash
AND
Played important role in government/decisions
What was their world view?
The 7 sacred teachings
Democracy
System of gov't where people are involved in decision making.
culture
a way of life shared by a group of people (knowledge, experiences, values)
What was their connection to nature? How did they live?
Treated all living things with respect and did not waste anything. Close relationship with nature.
How did they govern? What was the name of the confederacy and what was it's purpose?
Formed alliances with other groups. Iroquois confederacy set up laws for behavior.
How did they solve problems in their society
Clan system. each clan had specific rules
Matrilinel
ancestral descent through the maternal line.
Pluralistic society
Society made up of many different groups of people, each with it own identities , ideas, perspectives, and culture.
Did they live in clans? If yes or no, how did they live
Lived in clans, small villages of extended families. People share resources and cooperated.
How did their society function? How was work and reward shared?
Women worked together to plant and harvest the crops. Believed all resources belonged to the entire community. Shared everything. Land, crops, medicine, etc.
men and women equal in sharing work. Women took care of children and homes and gathered food.