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Strength and power is represented by the feather of this bird.
What is an eagle feather?
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There are this number of signed treaties in Alberta
What is three? Treaty 6,7,8
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An act that is a part of many rituals. It involves burning sacred herbs and washing the smoke over the eyes, ears, mouth, etc.
What is a smudge?
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Aboriginal men or women who are recognized and respected for their wisdom, experience, knowledge and insight
What is an elder?
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The color of clothing worn on the day on which we commemorate the thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who were removed from their homes at this time of the year and forced to attend residential schools.
What is orange?
200
This represents the alignment of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realities.
What is a medicine wheel?
200
These are the three numbered treaties in Alberta?
What is six, seven and eight?
200
A gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada.
What is a potlatch?
200
The date of the summer solstice and National Indigenous Day.
What is June 21st?
200
Known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of snow, typically built when the snow is easy to compact.
What is an igloo?
300
This is a finger woven belt made of brightly coloured wool and/or plant fibres that is still worn by Metis people.
What is a sash?
300
Descendants of mixed First Nations/native Indian and white/European families.
What are Metis people?
300
An explanation to the spirit about why it is being picked and how it will be used is required. An offering of tobacco in return for the generosity shown by the Earth and the plant which shared itself.
What is sweetgrass?
300
This is the word for hello in the Cree language.
What is Tansi?
300
The number of Aboriginal languages spoken in Canada.
What is over 70?
400
A structure made of stones piled on top of each other. These were used for navigation in the frozen north where, in the snow, everything could look the same. They were also used to mark sacred places.
What is an Inuksuk?
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Every part of this animal was used to supply the needs of the Native Americans.
- Buffalo provided the people's main food - buffalo liver, brain and nose gristle were a treat, eaten raw.
- Dried buffalo meat, called pemmican, provided food to eat through the winter.
- Buffalo bones provided marrow to eat.
- Buffalo bones were also carved to make knives, and boiled to make glue.
- Buffalo skin could be used to make tipis, clothes, moccasins, bedding, parflèches, saddle covers and water-bags.
- Dried buffalo dung provided fuel for fires.
- Buffalo horns and hooves were made into cups.
- Buffalo sinews were used as bowstrings and thread.
- Buffalo fat was used as soap.
- The rough tongue of a buffalo could be used as a hairbrush.
- The tail of a buffalo could be used as a fly-swat.
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Is used in smudges, healing or talking circles because it has a healing effect - its smoke is believed to purify thoughts, the environment and to eliminate bad or negative thoughts.
What is sweetgrass?
400
A main staple of First Nations Foods. There are millions of recipes with varying ratios of flour, sugar, salt, yeast, water and more.
What is bannock?
400
The number of Metis settlements in Alberta.
What is eight?
- Buffalo Lake (Caslan)
- East Prairie (south of Lesser Slave Lake)
- Elizabeth (east of Elk Point)
- Fishing Lake (Packechawanis)
- Gift Lake (Ma-cha-cho-wi-se) or Utikuma Lake
- Goodfish Lake
- Kikino
- Paddle Prairie (or Keg River)
- Peavine (Big Prairie, north of High Prairie)
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Monuments created by First Nations of the Pacific Northwest that represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or events.Display beings, or crest animals, marking a family’s lineage
What is a totem pole?
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The date of the annual event was chosen because it is the time of year that children were taken from their homes to residential schools.
September 30th. Orange Shirt Day.
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It consists of a group of singers striking hand drums in unison. The dancers join hands to form a large circle, symbolically indicating the equality of all people in the circle. The dancers move to their left with a side-shuffle step to reflect the long-short pattern of the drumbeat, bending their knees to emphasize the pattern.
What is a Round Dance?
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A large gathering organized by North American Indians for socializing, dancing, singing, and celebrating their culture.
What is a powwow?
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This food is dried meat, traditionally bison pounded into coarse powder and mixed with an equal amount of melted fat, and occasionally saskatoon berries, cranberries, and even cherries, currants, chokeberries or blueberries.
What is pemmican?
