Culture
This country is home to the Sami people, an Indigenous group known for their reindeer herding culture.
What is Norway?
This large Indigenous nation resides in the homeland of central North America and includes the area of land across 3 prairie provinces, extending into Ontario, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and the Northern United States from Ohio to Montana.
What is Métis First Nations?
In this 1984 film, a hunter-gatherer of the Kalahari Desert discovers a glass Coca-Cola bottle and believes it to be a gift from above.
What is 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'?
Jacques Cartier's men were cured of scurvy in the winter of 1535-36 with this tea made of a plant high in vitamin c.
What is Eastern white pine?
Often seen as a trickster and a teacher, this flying animal is viewed as a spiritual guide in Canadian Indigenous cultures.
What is a raven?
This prominent Indigenous leader from Canada played a crucial role in advocating for indigenous rights and reconciliation with the Canadian government.
Who is Chief Wilton Littlechild?
This global region is home to the largest population of self-identified Indigenous peoples.
What is Asia?
The movie 'Dances with Wolves' enormous success and sympathetic treatment of the Native Americans led to the Lakota Nation adopting the film's director as an honorary member.
Used in smudging ceremonies and creation stories, this plant grows wild across the Okanagan.
These teachings use animals to convey important life lessons. For example, the wolf represents humility and the bear symbolizes courage.
What are the 7 Grandfather Teachings?
For life on the trail, buffalo meat was preserved by cutting into long strips and left in the sun to dry, pounded into flakes and mixed with dried berries, which was called:
What is Pemmican?
The Aboriginal peoples of this continent have long used boomerangs for animal hunting and warfare.
What is Australia?
When Leonardo DiCaprio was filming The Revenant in Calgary, Alberta, he mistook this regular occuring weather event as global warming.
This flower, used by the Thompson River Salish Peoples of British Columbia, was used to treat mild epilepsy.
What is Calypso Orchid or Fairy Slipper?
Bear, Eagle, Wolf, Thunderbird, Salmon, Turtle, Buffalo, Orca are animals you might see on this cylinder-shaped structure which is revered in Canadian Indigenous culture.
What is a Totem Pole?
In 1613 this Native American women was held for ransom by English colonists before marrying tobacco planter John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
The vast majority of Europe's Indigenous populations can be found in this region.
What is the Arctic?
Yellowstone, a popular series about a large cattle ranch in Montana, follows the conflicts along shared borders of the ranch and this Indigenous reservation.
What is Broken Rock Indian Reservation?
A basic antimicrobial herb, this plan has been used for hundreds of years to treat the common cold.
What is Echinacea?
This animal represents Mother Earth and longevity, and is often seen in ponds and waterways in the South Okanagan.
What is the turtle?
These good luck charms are viewed as a symbol of oneness among numerous Indigenous cultures, believed to collect any negative thoughts and terrible dreams.
This now submerged 1800 kilometer landmass connected Alaska and Russia and is believed to be the route used by the first people to arrive in the Western Hemisphere thousands of years ago.
What is the Bering Straight or Beringia?
In this 1985 movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the couple encounter a Nubian mountain tribe, Indigenous inhabitants of the central Nile valley in Africa.
What is Jewel of the Nile?
Used to treat swellings, inflammation, and tumors, this flowering shrub has been used by the Native Americans by boiling the stems.
What is Witch Hazel?
At this place in in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years in which hunters drove buffalo over a cliff and into wooden corrals for food.
What is Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump?