Terminology/Worldviews
The term Indigenous includes these groups in Canada.
What are First Nations, Inuit, and Metis?
This is the number of language families across British Columbia.
What is 7?
It is not just for the physical body, but for the mind and spirit.
What is meant by the phrase "our food is our medicine?"
In First Nations societies, these are all interconnected with the ways that people use and take care of their land and resources.
What are spiritual, social, legal, political, and economic systems?
This is a system by which a group of people produces, distributes, and consumes goods and services.
What is an economy?
Travis is a Cree man from the Siksika Nation in Treaty 7 territory located on what is commonly known as Southern Alberta. According to the rule of thumb mentioned in class, when it's necessary to reference his Indigeneity, this is the correct term.
What is Siksika?
This is creating mental pictures of familiar locations.
What is cognitive mapping?
This value is exemplified by the fact that when hunting, Indigenous people took only what they needed and, in some cases, laid down tobacco and offered prayers of thanks to the creator.
What is reciprocity?
These are unwritten laws and protocols that everyone in a society would have understood and generally abided by.
What are legal traditions?
As opposed to a capitalist economy, this type of economy is connected to social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of life.
What is a traditional economy?
This is a metaphor to describe the sum of experiences that influence how you see and interact with the world around you.
What is a cultural suitcase?
Prior to European contact, people used landmarks and this to record interactions with the land.
What is the oral tradition?
Indigenous peoples were forced to adopt this in response to colonization.
What is a modern diet heavy in refined grains, sugar, and farmed meat?
What is the oral tradition?
This important and widely traded resource was carried along major trading routes called Grease Trails.
What is Eulachan grease?
This is a set of beliefs and values that influence how a person or people interact with the world around them.
What is a worldview?
There are costs and benefits to adopting modern mapping making systems. One cost is that borders between and within nations became less ___________.
What is flexible?
Based on the posters you created, traditional foods are valuable sources of this.
What are nutrients?
In many Indigenous societies, leaders were not considered to be _______ the rest of the community.
What is above?
Scientists can study the complexity of traditional trade economies thanks to the work of scientists like archeologists. Archeologists are able to determine the age and origin of this material which tells valuable information about where and when trading took place.
What is obsidian?
Many Indigenous worldviews share this perspective on interconnectedness which stands in opposition to European philosopher Hobbes idea that humans are in a perpetual state of competition with one another.
What is a common belief that we are all connected to nature and one another.
The ____________ provided by a map will depend on the ____________ of the person who made choices about what to include and exclude when they created it. (Hint: It's the same word).
What is perspective?
Considering that humans are profoundly social beings, traditional foods can be powerful medicine for mental health in this way.
What is by bringing people together?
The Canadian government banned these important ceremonies that often centered around sharing food and gift-giving.
What is the potlatch?
Traditionally, nations used their strategic locations (in a watershed or near the mouth of a river, for example) to do this.
What is control trade?