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What prevented the exportation of pemmican from the Red River Valley in 1814?
What is the Pemmican Proclamation?
What form of transportation was favored by the HBC?
What is a York boat?
Why was pemmican important for the Métis AND NWC traders?
What is a staple food high in fat (calories) and protein that has a high trade value (income)?
Who was the elitist in Red River that refused socialize with the Métis community.
Who is Frances Simpson?
Name two specific uses of the bison that are not food related.
What are clothing, dishes, decoration, ropes, tools, pouches, soap, cooking oil, and fuel?
What is Lord Selkirk's real name?
Who is Thomas Douglass?
A consequence directly tied to the fur trade that destroyed communities?
What are smallpox?
What did Ontario turn Thomas Scott into? (be specific)
What is a Protestant martyr?
Who issued the Pemmican Proclamation and why?
Who is Miles Macdonell?
What motivated Lord Selkirk to colonize/settle the Northwest?
What is the plight of poor Scottish tenant farmers being evicted from their homes?
Name TWO staple foods that Red River colonists survived upon.
What are bannock and pemmican?
Who were responsible for providing knowledge and acting as guides/interpreters for fur traders?
Who are First Nations women?
Where did the National Métis Committee seize for their provisional government?
Where is Fort Garry?
What is the name of the individual who negotiated peace between the Dene and Cree, benefiting the HBC?
Who is Thanadelthur?
What does Rupert's Land become once bought by The Dominion of Canada?
What are the North-West Territories?
What did Riel's provisional government have that made their government legal?
What are sovereign rights?
What boats did the NWC use for transportation and what was their advantage over York Boats?
What are canots and being lighter/easier to portage?
How did the Battle of Seven Oaks begin at Frog Plain?
What is a failed attempt at parley due to gunfire?
Who was the Captain of the Métis hired by the NWC to harass colonists into leaving Red River?
Who is Cuthbert Grant?
Identify two of the "themes" (bolded headers) from the Métis List of Rights and The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
What are Fundamental Freedoms, Democratic rights, Legal Rights, Equality Rights, and Official Languages of Canada?
What 2/8 features of a government are missing?
What are
1. Sharing and Caring
2. Leaders
3. Laws and Rules
4. Law Enforcers
5. People
6. Land and Resources
What are places to meet and a decision-making process?
Name 3 key differences between the HBC and the NWC (other than transportation).
What was the realtionship between Louis Riel, Dr. John Schultz, and Thomas Scott?
Who are Thomas Scott and Dr. John Schultz as Canadian Party and Orange Order members who actively discriminated against the Métis and were seized by Louis Riel?
What is the relationship between Pierre Guillaume Sayer and Free Trade?
What is being convicted for "illegal trading" without punishment, ending the HBC's monopoly?
What three key issues did the three negotiators from Red River discuss with the Canadian government in Ottawa?
What are religion, land rights, and culture (language)?