First Nations and Inuit
What is one kind of home many First Nations people lived in?
Wigwam
Straw, mud, and sticks
Name 2 ways we can protect our environment.
Using less water, making less garbage, recycling, only taking what we need, driving less, treating animals kindly, not littering, etc.
Does the environment affect the way we live?
Yes
What is the name of the special kind of singing many Inuit people do?
Throat singing
Name one food an English Noble have eaten.
Smoked meat, sweet puddings and desserts, and eggs
Name one environmental concern from present day.
Pipelines (oil spills, clearing land, taking Indigenous land)
Water pollution
Global warming
Etc.
Wood, plants for food, rocks and minerals, and animals are examples of natural __________?
Resources
Name 2 animals Indigenous people traditionally eat.
Caribou, moose, seal, fish
What job did many English peasants do?
Farming
Name two options animals have when we remove their homes for new buildings.
They move somewhere else, they stay and adapt (racoons), they don't survive
Will all resources exist forever or never run out?
No
Oil, water, animal species, natural gas
Name two jobs or roles Indigenous peoples traditionally did.
Hunter, and fur-trader knowledge-keeper, Medicine People, healer, teacher, etc.
If peasants were farmers, what did Noblemen do?
Manage the farmers
What is one reason why should we care about our environment and the Earth?
The Earth is our only home, we need the Earth now AND people in the future will need to live here too, I am the future (what I think and do matters)
Name 2 ways First Nations people traditionally use all parts of an animal?
Food, clothing, art, medicine, household objects, tools
Name a technology Indigenous peoples invented to make their life easier in the past.
Birchbark canoes or an inukshuk
Wool
When I stand up for the environment and stop others from treating the Earth badly, I am being a steward of the Earth.
What is another way to say "being a steward?"?
Protector
Advocate
Make a comparison between the way Indigenous people feel about Earth compared to settlers.
Indigenous peoples see the Earth as a living, essential, and valuable part of life.
Settlers saw the land as something to own, not alive, no regard for future people