General Information
The literal meaning of the word Métis.
What is mixed?
The season that many Inuit people experience in total darkness, with no sunrises or sunsets.
What is winter?
Smallpox is an example of this, that was introduced to Indigenous people by Europeans.
What is disease?
The religion that is merged with Indigenous beliefs and practices in Métis spirituality.
What is Christianity (or Christian)?
The kind of dwelling that Haudenosaunee people live in.
What is a longhouse?
The profession of the fathers of Métis children.
What are explorers, fur traders, and/or settlers?
The season in which Inuit people lived in tents.
What is summer?
The name of the people born from a European father and a First Nations mother (spelled correctly).
What is Métis?
In many Indigenous cultures, stories and legends are passed down by this tradition.
What is the oral tradition?
How many people are in one Inuit family structure.
What are 5 or 6?
Inuit Nanangat includes these three elements.
What are land, water, and ice?
In 1700s Haudenosaunee life, these people were responsible for drying and treating animal skins.
Who were the women?
2 animals that were overfished in the Arctic, requiring Inuit people to find new areas to live.
What are seals and fish?
The gifts that Haudenosaunee believe were given to them by the Creator.
What are values and traditions?
A word meaning "passed through the mother."
What is matrilineal?
The previous name for the Haudenosaunee, given to them by Europeans
What is Iroquois?
The name of the traditional Métis food that combines bison meat with small fruits.
What is pemmican?
2 sources of heat and light that Inuit people taught Europeans how to use to survive the dark, cold winter months.
What are whale oil and seal blubber?
An item that is made out of elk skin stretched over a rigid ring.
What is a drum?
The name of the head of a Haudenosaunee household.
What is a Clan Mother?
The Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (spelled correctly).
What are Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora?
What are The North West Company and The Hudson's Bay Company?
What is French?
The Inuktitut name for a shaman (spelled correctly).
What is an Angakok?
The 4 modern-day provinces that are not known for large numbers of Métis settlements.