Manitoba Then and Now
Signed on August 3, 1871, Winnipeg belongs to this treaty territory.
What is Treaty One.
This is a traditional practice of directing the smoke from cedar, tobacco, sage, and sweet grass to cleanse the body.
What is smudging?
This is the number of calls to action that the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recommended after extensive research, listening to survivors, and gathering diverse perspectives.
What is 94.
These vegetable plants make up the "Three Sisters".
What are beans, corn, and squash.
This is the number of reserves that are located in Manitoba.
What is 63.
Winnipeg receives water from this place.
What is Shoal Lake 39 & 40.
Name the people who pass knowledge from one generation to another by telling stories about history, values, and traditions.
Elders
Known as Reservations in the U.S.A., these lands in Canada were set aside after the treaties were signed for First Nations people to live.
What are Reserves.
With the help of birchbark baskets, Ojibwe people collected sap from this tree to make syrup.
What is the maple tree.
This is the number of Indigenous languages recognized and spoken in Manitoba.
What is seven.
Cree, Dakota, Dene, Inuktitut, Michif, Ojibwe, and Ojibwe-Cree.
Name the historical gathering place where the Assiniboine River meets the Red River?
What is "The Forks".
This was the traditional method Indigenous people used to catch fish.
What is spearing.
This was the year that the Indian Act, an act designed to control and assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society, was signed.
What is 1876.
Pine needles are traditionally used to treat these symptoms.
What are sore throats and coughs.
He is an Indigenous politician who has been serving as the 25th premier of Manitoba since October 18, 2023, and the leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) since September 16, 2017.
Who is Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew.
This Indigenous Chief helped Selkirk settlers in Manitoba by preventing them from starving.
Who is Chief Peguis.
Name the Metis jig from the Red River Valley, which continues to be famously known through time.
What is the Red River jig.
This is the main purpose of the Bear Clan.
What is crime prevention and safety.
Wild ginger roots are traditionally used to treat this symptom.
What are earaches.
This is the percentage of people in Manitoba who identify as being Indigenous.
What is 18.1%. (May 22, 2023).
This person led the Metis party at the Battle of Seven Oaks.
Who is Cuthbert Grant.
Grandfather rocks are heated by fire and placed in a low-profile hut for this purification ceremony.
What is a Sweat Ceremony.
This is the year that Indigenous people were given the right to vote in Federal elections without giving up their status as Indigenous people.
What is 1960.
Indigenous people in North America chewed this bark to treat pain, inflammation, and fevers, for the active ingredient, salicin, which can be found in the bark of this tree.
What is the Willow Tree.
Founded by a group of co-founders, including Bernadette Smith and Kyle Kematch, this is a community-driven initiative in Winnipeg that focuses on searching for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, primarily in and around the Red River.
What is Drag the Red.