First Nations Peoples
The passing of knowledge, history, and culture from one generation to the next through spoken words.
What is an oral tradition?
The belief system around honestly, humility, wisdom, courage, truth, respect, and love.
What are the 7 Grandfather Teachings?
This European explorer found land in Canada on the east coast and claimed it for England, calling it "New Founde Lande"
Who is John Cabot?
The reason Europeans wanted beaver pelts.
A person who travels to foreign lands to do religious work.
Who is a missionary?
These people are knowledge keepers and teachers in their communities.
Who are elders?
These people communicated with the natural and spiritual world.
Who are spiritual leaders?
This word means trading without money.
The reason the French wanted to settle in Canada.
What is gaining power and wealth?
A solid, permanent home made of wood and bark.
What is a longhouse?
These items include masks, pipes, medicine bundles, or certain plants and herbs.
This European explorer attacked an Inuit camp because he found European clothes and thought they belonged to his missing crew.
These French men travelled deep into unmapped areas to get fur without licenses.
What are coureurs de bois?
The name of the land where Pierre Du Goa de Monte and Samuel de Champlain formed their first settlements.
This community lived on fertile soil near water, perfect for farming, fishing, and travelling.
Who are the Wendat?
This entity is believed to have made everything on earth.
What is the Creator or Great Spirit?
First Nations people shared this kind of technology with European explorers to help them navigate through narrow streams and rivers.
What are canoes?
This consequence of the fur trade involved First Nations people needing European products and their traditional way of life began to change.
These French nobles were responsible for dividing the land into lots.
Who are seigneurs?
Complex interrelationships that govern First Nations communities and define responsibilities.
What is a clan system?
The being that First Nations people believe created the land called "Turtle Island"
Who is the sky woman?
This European explorer was travelling to claim lands for France and to find a water route to Asia.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This consequence of the fur trade involved Europeans bringing illness to Canada, and First Nations peoples bodies were unable to fight them, resulting in high death rates.
What are diseases?
People who lived in settlements to farm and pay taxes were called..
Who are habitants?