Peoples
What is the traditional language of the Cowichan people?
Hul'qui'mi'num
What are the 3 most popular foods?
Fried bread, smoked salmon, pemmican
All local tribes live in an area they call what?
Coast Salish
At the end of the First Salmon feast what was done with the fish bones?
They were put back in the river to show they were well treated.
When was the first indigenous residential school put in place?
1840.
Which is the largest first nation community in BC?
Cowichan
What kinds of materials did they use to make their homes?
Wood and animal skins such as deer, elk, bear.
What is the correct spelling of Cowichan?
Quw'utsun'
Ceremonial events are customarily conducted in what?
Bighouse, or a longhouse
On what day do we wear orange shirts in support of indigenous people?
September 30.
Name 2 of the local first nations tribes from our area.
Cowichan, Halalt, Stz'uminus, Penelakut, Malahat
What distinguishes a tipi from other conical tents?
The smoke flap at the top.
where did the koksilah live?
British columbia ,or Duncan.
Are totem poles part of first nations religious history from centuries ago or are they not?
No. (Totem poles are a newer idea created after european contact less than 200 years ago.)
When were the last residential schools closed down?
1996?
Where did the plains peoples live?
Southern provinces of Alberta.
What was the purpose of a potlatch?
A gift giving feast practiced by the indigenous people of the pacific north west of Canada and the US.
What areas are within the Coast Salish region?
Alaska, Vancouver Island, Washington, Oregon, Haida Gwai (Queen Charlotte Islands), coastal area of the mainland.
the coast of British columbia has been inhabited for more than?
10 000 years.
Where can the Cowichan people sell the fish they catch locally and to who?
They can sell it to their own people and on their own land.
where did the plateau lived?
souther interior of British Columbia
List 3 kinds of things they made out of cedar trees?
Baskets, clothing, canoes, plankhousess, tools, weapons.
What communities originally made up Cowichan?
Comeakin, Kilpaulus, Somena, Clemclemaluts, Quamichan, Khenipsen, Koksilah
most totem poles are,what height?
the height of 30.