Their History
The explorer that explored the Fraser river in the year 1808. (HINT: the river is named after him)
Who was Simon Fraser?
The term for a group of people that travels and moves a lot.
What is being nomadic?
Their main type of housing in the summer.
What is the Tipi?
The time if year that they had a ceremony to please the rain gods.
What is spring?
The first European explorer to make contact with the Plateau people.
Who was Alexander Mackenzie?
The daily tasks that men were responsible for.
What are hunting, trapping and making tools and weapons?
The current province that is where they would have lived.
What is British Columbia?
The Plateau People's main hunting weapon for fish.
What is the harpoon?
The year that gold was discovered in the Fraser River, attracting thousands of European settlers to the area where the Plateau people lived.
What was the year 1857?
Their main means of transportation.
What is the Dugout Canoe?
The mountain range to the west of the area where they live.
What are the Rockies?
The Plateau People's main hunting weapon for animals.
What is the bow and arrow?
Their names of their three main sub-groups.
What are the Interior Salish, the Kutenai
and the Chilcotin?
The main language that they speak
What is Salish?
The three rivers that were their main water sources
What are the Fraser, Thompson and Columbia rivers?
Their most important food source.
What is Salmon?
The period in time when some of the Plateau people converted to Christianity.
What was the late 19th century?
The type of houses that they lived in during the wintertime.
What are pit houses?
The main large animals that lived in the area where they did
What are Bears, Mountain Goats and Deer?
The type of traps that they used to capture large animals for food.
What are pitfall and deadfall traps?