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Jessica's Story
Learning About the Past
Traditional Ways of Life
European Contact
Metis History
100
Jessica's First Nation family is the ____________.
What is Swampy Cree or Cree
100
This is the First Nations group that lived in the Assiniboia area in the 1800's
What is the Plains people?
100
This is an object that was used by humans, from an earlier time.
What is an artifact?
100
This group was the first Europeans to come to North America in about the year 1000.
Who are the Vikings?
100
These are two languages that came from the Metis people.
What are Michif and Bungi?
200
Jessica lives near the _____________ border. (2 provinces)
What is the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border.
200
This is the name of the shelter that the Inuit made.
What is igluit?
200
This is a person that studies the past by digging sites and looking for artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
200
This is the explorer that probably met the First Nations Chief Henri Membertou in Nova Scotia?
Who is Jacques Cartier?
200
These are the two cultures that combined to create the Metis Nation.
What are First Nations and European?
300
What the adults talk about around the campfire.
What is their ancestors/ tell stories.
300
This is the event that stopped fighting between Eastern Woodland cultures around the year 1000.
What is The Great Law of Peace?
300
Three groups of people in Canada who are original to the land.
What are First Nations, Inuit, and Metis?
300
This is something in nature such as animal, plant, mineral, water, air and wind.
What is a natural resource?
300
These are the three conflicts that the Metis were involved in during the early years.
What are The Battle of Seven Oaks, The Red River Resistance, and the Northwest Rebellion?
400
This is why Jessica's grandmother won't write down her stories.
What is - because they are considered gifts.
400
This is the natural event that occurred that made the First Nations move eastward and southward.
What are volcanic eruptions?
400
This is the way of remembering the past through stories and spoken word, rather than writing.
What is oral tradition, or storytelling.
400
This is the animal that fur traders were seeking for the fashion trade in Europe.
What is the beaver?
400
These are two jobs Metis men would do.
What are setting up and running trading posts, providing food and security, guiding, hunting, trapping?
500
These are three activities that occur at the Opaskwayak Indian Days Festival.
What are filleting fish, animal calls, and flour packing contests.
500
These are 3 items that were traded between First Nations tribes.
What are medicines, canoes, tools, crops, and animal hides.
500
These are the six major groups of First Nations people in the 1800's.
What are: Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Pacific Coast, Plateau, Plains, Eastern Woodlands
500
This is an explorer that came after the Vikings to Canada.
Who is John Cabot?
500
This is what happened to Louis Riel after the Battle of Batoche.
What is he was hung for treason (crimes against Canada)?