The methods the traditional Wabanaki used for obtaining food.
What were hunting and gathering?
100
A person with spiritual powers, who could communicate with other worlds, and was sometimes a healer.
What was a motewolon?
100
The Wabanaki had this kind of diet before contact with Europeans.
What is high protein?
200
"grandmother" and "grandfather"
What were general terms of respect used to address elders?
200
Hunting, trapping, diplomatic and military excursions.
What were the traditional male roles?
200
The traditional Wabanaki used waterways for these two purposes.
What were food and transportation?
200
The literal translation of this is "great man."
What was a kinap?
200
Smallpox, viral hepatitis, or plague.
What were the diseases that may have caused "the Great Dying?"
300
Greatest mountain
What is Mt. Katahdin?
300
A wabanaki boy was considered an adult when he did this.
What is killed his first deer.
300
Indian Township and Pleasant Point.
What are the two reservations of the Passamaquoddy tribe?
300
These leaders led by respect and example, not coercion.
What was a sakom or sagamore?
300
These were Europeans who traveled to traditional Wabanaki territory to convert Maine Native people to Christianity.
Who were missionaries?
400
Souriquois
Who were the ancestors of today's Micmacs?
400
Wabanaki clothing was usually decorated with symbols that represented these.
What were ideas significant to Wabanaki culture?
400
Sturgeon and aquatic plants.
What were two foods traditional Wabanaki got from the rivers, lakes, and oceans in their habitat?
400
While Sakoms were chosen for life, and the position was hereditary, these were usually chosen by ability.
What were the kinaps?
400
This commodity was responsible for European hunters' influx into Wabanaki territory, so that they could obtain it to take back to Europe, where it was sold.
What was fur?
500
"Those who speak badly."
Who are the Maliseet?
500
Elders in traditional Wabanaki culture passed on tribal history and spiritual beliefs through these.
What were myths, legends, and stories?
500
This river flows through Micmac and Maliseet territories.
What is the St. John River?
500
The Wabanaki were basically this, meaning they believed that all people were equal, and deserved equal rights and opportunities.
What is egalitarian?
500
As the examples in "Turmoil on the Wabanaki Frontier 1524-1678" show, this influenced the written histories of the French and English who traveled to, explored, and settled in traditional Wabanaki territory.