Vocabulary
A part of the Haudenosaunee culture and it was a bead, made out of shells. It was put on a string and made into a “belt”.
Wampum
This tribe lived in harsh winter conditions and learned to harvest whales and ate seals and caribou.
Inuit
This tribe lived in Wigwams, covered in birch bark and sometimes built longhouses. When the men married they would braid their hair and shave off the bottom half.
Abenaki
The first Explorer to Canada was _______________________ who visited the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Lief Erikson
Europeans would trade metal goods and other resources for what from the Indigenous communities?
animal pelts
The Haudenosaunee men and women would wear _______________ (shoes made out of leather).
moccasins
This tribe (Montagnais and Naskapi people) lived along the St. Lawrence River.
Innu
This tribe lived in the Maritime region in Wigwams that looked like cones or domes. They were credited for inventing the hockey stick.
Mi'kmaq
This explorer sailed to Canada in 1497 and again the next year, but was lost at sea.
John Cabot
Many young French men wanted to travel deeper into the wilderness to trade with the Indigenous people themselves. What were they called?
Courier de Bois
The name of the first settlement of New France was called _____________________________.
Port Royal
This tribe was located around Lake Superior. The Shaking Tent Ceremony was important to them; where a Shaman would heal the sick by building a tent and calling on spirits to heal them.
Ojibwa
This tribe lived in longhouses and spoke a kind of Iroquoian language. They farmed crops like corn, beans and squash.
Huron-Wendat
Who gave Canada its name from the native word “Kanata”?
Jacques Cartier
Once the French conquered and took the land, they set up farms in a __________________.
Seigneurial System
Unfortunately, this first settlement was not very successful because many men died from a disease called __________________.
scurvy
This tribe, also known as the Six Nations, are made up of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora Nations.
Haudenosaunee
Which tribe was organized into a Clan System, with smaller groups called Totems?
Algonquin
Which explorer made the first attempt to find the Northwest Passage? He was convinced there was gold in Canada.
Martin Frobisher
The most influential and powerful colonists, the __________________, would be in charge of the farming land.
Seigneurs
The Haudenosaunee organized themselves into ___________. There were 9 of them that were named after different animals.
clans
This tribe lived in Newfoundland and lived in homes known as Mamateeks, shaped like cones and covered in birch bark.
Beothuk
Who were the largest group of First Nations people in Canada? They were primarily hunters and gatherers and lived in tipis and wigwams.
Cree
This explorer is known as the Father of New France.
Samuel de Champlain
Farms set up in New France were modelled after what system of Medieval Europe?
Feudal System