The Algonquin People
The river central to the lives of the Algonquin people.
What is the Ottawa River?
The large, multi-family dwellings that the Huron people lived in.
What are longhouses?
This was made up of several nations, including the Mohawk, Oneida, and Seneca.
What is The Iroquois Confederacy?
All three groups relied on these amazing bodies of water
What are the Great Lakes?
Sky Woman landed on this animal’s back, which became the foundation for the land.
What is the turtle?
Dome-shaped dwellings made from wood and bark.
What are wigwams?
The Huron were skilled farmers who grew these three crops known as the "Three Sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The Iroquois lived in southern Ontario, New York, and this province.
What is Quebec?
These groups used the Great Lakes for these things.
What are trade and transportation?
This kind of story describes how Sky Woman fell from the sky and helped create Turtle Island.
What is the Huron or Iroquois creation story?
The Algonquin people relied on hunting, fishing, and this.
What is gathering?
The Huron creation story features this celestial figure who fell from the sky.
Who is Sky Woman?
The Iroquois grew corns, beans, and squash, also referred to as this.
These were the main sources of food for all three groups, combining farming, hunting, and gathering.
What are the "Three Sisters", animals, and wild plants?
In the Sky Woman story, this animal dove into the water to bring up soil to create land.
What is the muskrat?
A type of bark, known for its flexibility and water resistance, to build their canoes.
What is birch bark?
The Huron lived between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay in this province.
What is Ontario?
The Iroquois Confederacy was also known by this name, meaning "People of the Longhouse."
This type of oral tradition was used by all three groups to pass down their history and traditions.
What is storytelling?
This symbol represents the land created on the back of a turtle in Indigenous stories.
What is Turtle Island?
The Great Lake closest to the territory of the Algonquin people.
What is Lake Huron?
On average, around at least this number of families shared a firepit in longhouses.
What are 2?
The Iroquois Confederacy united nations to do this.
What is make decisions and solve problems together peacefully?
These two opposing forces were represented by the twins born to Sky Woman’s daughter
What are good and evil, or light and dark?