Chapter 7 Terms
This is another word for buffalo.
What is bison?
These are human figures made of rock that serve as landmarks for communication.
What are inukshuks?
This group of people constructs igloos to shelter from harsh temperatures of the Arctic.
Who are the Inuit?
This is the territory given to the Hudson Bay Company by the king.
What is Rupert's Land?
These were the two coureurs de bois who visited London to propose establishing a fur trade based on Hudson Bay.
Who are Radisson and Groseilliers?
This refers to how a person identifies his or her blood relatives.
What is kinship?
This is the belief that everything in the world has a spirit and that certain special people can communicate with the spirit world.
The peoples of the plateau constructed this circular type of home to protect themselves from the elements.
What are pit houses?
This is someone who carries out an enterprise?
What is an entrepreneur?
The head traders in the HBC were known as these.
What are "the Factors"?
This refers to something living in the spirit world.
What is supernatural?
This is when descent from generation to generation is reckoned through both the male and female lines.
What is bilateral (kinship)?
This animal followed specific migration routes every year, and hunters would wait, concealed in shallow pits, to kill them.
What are caribou?
This is an old measure of distance, normally equal to about 5 kilometres.
What is a league?
A "Made Beaver (MB)" could be described as this.
What is a prime adult beaver fur that was used to gauge the value of other furs.
This is the definition of 'matrilocal.'
What is "when a man and a woman marry, they go to live with the woman's extended family"?
This is the definition of 'ethnography.'
What is: "an organized way of describing the characteristics of a culture"?
The Plains peoples participated in this central religious festival that sought visions by subjecting themselves to pain and suffering.
What is The Sun Dance or the Thirsting Dance?
This is the definition of 'overhead.'
What is: "the costs of running a business"?
People who transported furs by canoe during the fur trade were known as these.
What are voyageurs?
This is the definition of 'patrilineal.'
What is when "descent from generation to generation is reckoned through the male line only"?
This is the definition of 'matrilineal.'
What is: "when descent from generation to generation is reckoned through the female line only"?
The social organization of this group involved "clans" consisting of people who shared a name and descent from a common ancestor.
Who are the peoples of the Northwest Coast?
This is the definition of "circumnavigate."
What is: "to sale around the world"?
The North West Company was a partnership between these people who moved to Montreal after the fall of New France.
Who are Scottish and American capitalists?