Inuit & Arctic
This is the name of the Inuit homeland in Canada.
What is Nunavut?
These three crops were known as the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This animal was central to Plains life.
What is the Bison?
This was the most important food source for Plateau peoples.
What is salmon?
This tree was used to build houses, canoes, and totem poles.
What is Cedar?
This Inuit shelter made from snow was very effective at trapping heat.
What is an Igloo?
This type of large communal home was used by the Iroquois.
What is a longhouse?
This high-energy food was made from dried meat and fat.
What is pemmican?
Plateau peoples often acted as these between coastal and inland groups.
What are traders?
This ceremonial feast involved giving away wealth.
What is a Potlatch?
This word means “The People.”
What is Inuit?
This group selected leaders and controlled land in Iroquois society.
Who are women elders?
These were mobile groups of 50–100 people in Plains society.
What are bands?
Plateau peoples preserved fish by doing this for winter storage.
What is drying or smoking fish?
These carved structures told stories and showed family history.
What are totem poles?
This animal’s skin was used for warm clothing because its hollow hairs trapped air.
What is a Caribou?
This lifestyle allowed Iroquois villages to become permanent settlements.
What is farming (agriculture)?
This ceremony involved dancing, prayer, and sometimes sacrifice.
What is the Sun Dance?
This natural resource was traded between regions and used for tools.
What is obsidian?
This river junction is the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh.
What are the Fraser and Nechako Rivers?
This oil lamp was fuelled by seal fat.
What is a kudlik?
This system of government relied on discussion and agreement (consensus).
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
Two examples of how Plains peoples used bison besides food.
clothing, shelters (tipis), tools, rope, fuel, utensils
These were semi-underground winter homes.
What are kekuli?
This means “where the two rivers flow together.”
What is Lheidli?