The Red River Cart was used to carry Buffalo meat. These carts could also be used as boats. To turn it into a boat they just removed the wheels and hooked it to the bottom of the cart.
What is a Red River cart?
100
They took jobs in the fur trade, and buffalo hunting.
What kind of jobs did the métis people have?
100
They developed their own artistic style, poetry, music, economy, and values.
What kind of unique things did they develop in their culture?
100
The largest group of Métis living in the Red River was the French speaking Métis.
What was the largest group of Métis living in Red River?
200
The main meat was pemmican.
What was the main meat that the Métis ate?
200
The most common popular job for the Métis was leather work.
What was one common popular job the Métis had?
200
The Métis descendants are First Nations and British men that worked in the Hudson Bay Company, and French men.
How were the Métis descendants?
200
4000 Métis were mainly catholic; some kept their first nations beliefs.
What was the Métis main beliefs?
300
The York boats were used to deliver fur to the trading posts.
The métis used what kind of boats to deliver fur?
300
The most important job for the Red River Métis was hunting and fur trading.
What is the most important job for the Red River Métis?
300
The Métis knew 2-3 languages. One of their languages that they developed was called Michif. (Mis-Cheef)
How many languages did the Métis people know?
300
Country born Métis were children of the first nation women and British traders from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
How were the descendants of the country born Métis?
400
Women made meat that was called pemmican. Pemmican is pounded dry meat that pounded until shreds, then the meat is mixed with fat and berries.
What is pemmican?
400
The Métis women made pemmican to sell in the fur trade so the fur traders won't be hungry.
What was the job for the Métis women in the fur trade?
400
They shared a unique culture in the 1800’s that helped shape their identity.
What helped shape the Métis identity
400
About 1000 of the Métis lived by the Red River.
Where did most of the Métis live?
500
The Métis were independent people. They usually work for themselves as independent traders, hunters, and farmers.
We're the Métis independent?
500
The Métis men chose a council to organize the hunt before setting out.
How was the hunting trips organized?
500
The Métis he'd there own distinct way of life, which made them diverse.
What made the Red River Métis diverse?
500
In 1840 there were around 4000 francophone Métis in the region.
In 1840, how many francophone Métis lived in the region?