Vocabulary
Dried meat, pounded and flavoured with fat and local berries
What is Pemmican?
They believe they have a responsibility to preserve the environment and a duty to regard the ‘sacredness’ of wildlife.
What are First Nations?
Michif and Bungee
What is languages did the Métis People create?
In 1869, Canada bought __________ from the Hudson's Bay Company for ________.
What is Rupert's Land and $1.5 million?
The Blackfoot People had a specific way of life, based on the ______.
What is a bison?
People of mixed European and First Nations ancestry.
What is the definition of Métis?
The descendants of European fur traders and First Nations.
What is Métis?
Beadwork, embroidery, porcupine quillwork, a mix of First Nations patterns and French styles, is very respected today.
What is Métis women’s art?
Prime Minister John. A Macdonald sent William McDougall to govern the area and began sending ______ before the land officially became part of Canada.
What is Surveyors?
The Blackfoot Confederacy was an alliance among the Piikani,________, and Siksika.
What is Kainai?
People of mixed British and First Nations ancestry.
What is Country-born?
People of mixed Indigenous and British ancestry.
What is Country-born?
Fried bread, bannock, stew, and meatballs. From Europeans (French & Scottish): meatballs, stew, bread, and from First Nations: bannock, wild game, simple cooking.
What were the Traditional Foods the Métis People ate?
The government used the British grid system to divide the land into ______, which ignored the Métis’ traditional long, narrow farms, which followed a French-style layout, keeping families close and giving everyone access to rivers and woodlands.
What are square plots?
Before contact, the Confederacy controlled much of the ______ region, which is now Canada and the U.S.
What is Prairie?
A vast area of land in northern and western Canada, owned by the HBC.
What is Rupert’s Land?
Western European settlers who inhabited Canada East, now known as Quebec.
What are the French?
A blue or red flag with a white infinity image in the middle.
What is the Métis flag?
Most settlers were expected to be English-speaking _______, while the Métis were predominantly French-speaking _______, sparking concerns over cultural and religious differences.
What are Protestants and Catholics?
The bison provided the Blackfoot People with _____, _______, and ________.
What are food, shelter, and clothing?
A temporary government put in place until a permanent one is established.
What is the Provincial Government?
European settlers who spoke English and inhabited Canada West, which is now Ontario.
What are the British?
People with both Indigenous and European parents
What are the Métis people?
The Métis feared that settlers would build fences that would block the bison, an important source of food and culture, and their voices would be brought to attention by ____________.
What is Louis Riel?
In 1870, __________________ between the ____ and the ___________, near what is now Lethbridge, occurred. This is considered to have been the last battle between First Nations in North America.
What is the Battle of the Belly River, Cree, and Confederacy?