Clothing
Womens Roles
Miscellaneous
Music and Dance
100
It is a coat made from an Hudson's Bay Company Blanket
What is a capote
100
Women made this footwear.
What are moccasins?
100
It represents two cultures coming together to create a new one.
What is the infinity symbol?
100
This popular Metis dance is named after a river in Winnipeg.
What is the Red River Jig
200
Metis women beaded clothing using this style of decoration.
What is flowerbeadwork?
200
Metis women had a great knowlege of plants that they used to do this.
What is make medicines?
200
This meat was both eaten and sold by the Metis
What is buffalo meat?
200
This small handheld instrument is like a small accordian.
What is a concertina?
300
Was used for a variety of things including a back brace, a fur counter, a washcloth, family identity, and rope.
What is a sash?
300
Metis women did this to help supplement the food supply of meat in the household.
What is trapping small animals?
300
These two cultures blended together to create a new culture and people called the Metis.
What is European and First Nations
300
This fancy step from the Red River Jig is named after an animal with long ears.
What is the bunny step?
400
Much of the clothing was made from this including, pants, leggings and moccsasins.
What is buffalo hide?
400
The women did this to so that their family would have shelter while on the hunt.
What is putting up the tipi?
400
These men travelled down the riverways inland to trade goods for furs.
What are voyageurs?
400
This stringed instrument is played with a bow and is heard in all Metis music.
What is the fiddle?
500
These were worn on the feet when men and women would travel into the snow to hunt and trap.
What are snowshoes?
500
The women performed this task after the buffalo kill was brought back to camp.
What is butcher the meat?
500
The quest for this animal's fur is what started the fur trade in North America
What is the beaver.
500
This partnered dance involves a dog chasing a rabbit in an infinity pattern.
What is The Rabbit Dance?
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