My European friends would think my social status was high; they were durable, windproof, and waterproof.
What is a felt hat from beaver?
100
Men cut holes in the ice, used decoys to attract the fish. then speared the fish as they saw them.
When is winter.
100
Who helped negotiate the 1679 peace treaty between the Dakota and Ojibwe?
Who are the French?
100
I came to convert the Indians to Christianity.
Who are the missionaries.
200
A round dwelling made from poles and saplings, covered with sheets of birchbark or woven mats.
What is a wigwam?
200
With these, firewood is easier to cut plus building homes and canoes are easier to make too.
What are metal axes?
200
When did Indians collect the last furs of the season, traders prepare for departure and the women repair canoes for journey.
When is Spring?
200
The North American fur trade began between what two groups of people and where?
What is the French explorers and the American Indians in Eastern Canada.
200
I come from a wealthy family with a high social position. I definitely can read and write and am in charge of at least one trading post. The fine things around me, like fine china and silverware, show others that I am a gentleman.
Who are traders?
300
The yearly summer meeting of people involved in the fur trade, such as traders, clerks, voyageurs, and Indians.
What is the rendezvous?
300
Indian women found these were more durable and easier to cook with, fireproof, easy to carry and almost unbreakable.
What are brass and tin kettles?
300
When did women hang weighted nets in the water at night and collect the fish in the morning.
When is summer?
300
Besides the French, new traders began exchanging manufactured good for furs in the 1700s. Where were they from?
What is Great Britain and Holland?
300
I manage the day-to-day business at our trading post. My social position is not high but I can read and write. Someday, I want to be a trader.
Who are clerks?
400
The place where boats or goods are carried overland from one stretch of water to another.
What is portage?
400
Indian women found these softer, easier to clean, more comfortable, and they could be decorated beautifully.
What is clothing made from woolen fabric?
400
Traders and Indians were on the move during this season, traveling to posts and hunting grounds.
What is Autumn?
400
Name one of the things that women did to support the fur trade business?
What is fixed canoes, or prepared the pelts, or collected sugar, or translated/traded goods, or married traders to form alliances.
400
I am the workman that does the physical labor. My pay is low, the work is hard, but I can't read or write so this job is better than staying at home on the farm.
Who are the voyageurs?
500
An agreement made between two or more different groups to join forces for the purpose of achieving a common goal.
What is an alliance?
500
Europeans and the Dakota wanted them and learned how to make them from the Ojibwe because they were lighter and faster than what they had.
What are birchbark canoes?
500
Trade men returned with goods, packed them for travel, and went to rendezvous.
When is summer.
500
Name one way to tell that there was peace between the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes.
What is peace parties tracked back & forth, increased hunting privileges, the tribes were learning from one another, open roads between villages, and intermarriage.
500
I was a European that came to the Midwest not to trade furs but seeking fame and adventure.