Early Communities in Canada
What do we call the group of People who lived in Canada first?
First Nations
What is the name of the people that lived in the Kahnawake community?
Mohawk
What is the name of the people that lived in the Saugeen Peninsula community?
Anishinabe
What is the name of the people that lived in the Sault Ste. Marie community?
Metis
What did the First Nations use to travel on water?
Canoe
What are the people who came from different parts of the world to make Canada their home called?
Settlers
What type of home did the Mohawk people build?
Longhouses
What type of home did the Anishinabe people build?
Wigwam
What type of home did the Metis people build?
Log Cabin
What did the First Nations make their clothes from?
Canada was divided into these two areas
Upper Canada and Lower Canada
Who were the decisions makers in the kannawake community?
The women
True of False
The Anishinabe people were farmers?
False
Where were the men during the summer?
Working for the fur trading companies
How did the First Nations cook their food?
Fire
Name a reason settlers came to Canada
land to farm, freedom, for safety, to be near people with the same language and Faith
What game did the Mohawk children play?
Lacrosse
What type of wood did the Anishinabe people use to build baskets, dishes, cups, and canoes with?
Birchbark
The Metis people built their home along a ________.
River
Name a tool that the First Nations used to hunt with?
How many communities were there in Canada in 1825?
7
What animal fur was very popular?
Beaver
What is a popular shoe/slipper that the Anishinabe people make?
Moccasins
The Metis peope lived a life that combined the traditions of their First Nations and ____________.
French ancestors
What were the wise/older people in First Nation communities called?
Elders