Indigenous Communities
Helping the Newcomers
Settler Life
Definitions
Tools of the Trade
100
This indigenous community lives in Canada's coldest northern regions.
Who are the Inuit?
100
The indigenous people taught the settlers which plants to use for this important need.
What is medicine?
100
The fur trade was mostly about selling clothes made from the fur of this animal.
What are Beavers?
100
The first group of people to live in a place.
Indigenous
100
This tool is used to chop wood for firewood or for building homes.
What is an Axe?
200
The name of this community means "mixed." They have indigenous and settler parents.
Who are the Metis.
200
The indigenous communities taught the settlers to build Canoes out of wood. What did this help the settlers do?
What is travel across water.
200
The first settlers traveled from these two European countries to Canada.
What are England and France?
200
When someone is forced to work for another person.
Enslavement
200
This was the most important form of transportation for the indigenous peoples who lived around rivers.
What are canoes?
300
One of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in North America, this community is best known for the Teepees they lived in.
Who are the Cree?
300
Indigenous communities taught the settlers how to get this sweet treat from trees.
What is tree sap/maple syrup.
300
This is the job most settlers did when they arrived in Canada, especially in New France.
What is farming?
300
A person who travels to a new country to build a community.
What is a Settler?
300
These were worn on a person's feet to get around in cold climates.
What are Snowshoes.
400
This haudenosaunee home housed many families at once, and had firepits designed for multiple families to share.
What is a Longhouse?
400
The name of this indigenous clothing item which became popular with settlers.
What are moccasins?
400
These agreements were made between the government and indigenous people, but were not always followed as promised.
What are treaties?
400
The oldest member of Haudenosaunee communities who passed on their teachings to the younger members of their clan.
What is an Elder?
400
This Inuit home is made out of packed snow and ice!
What is an Igloo?
500
This indigenous people's name translates in english as "good humans."
Who are the Anishinaabe?
500
Name at least two foods that the indigenous peoples taught settlers to grow.
What are...
Pumpkins, Corn, Beans, Squash.
500
17 Black Settlers helped found this city, the capital of Nova Scotia.
What is Halifax?
500
Schools for indigenous children run by the Canadian Government and the Christian Church.
What are Residential Schools?
500
These were small tent-like homes used by the Cree.
What are Teepees.