Inuit
Inuit Quajimajatuqangit, or IQ, is used to explain Inuit philosophies and worldview. It means?
“that which Inuit have always known to be true”
The largest population of any Aboriginal group in Canada. Nehiyawak, a word meaning?
"The People"
People of the Place of Flint, as the Kanien:keha’ka call themselves, are also known as the:
Mohawk
(Haudenosaunee) ?
The Tlingit are one of the many nations living along the ______ _______
Pacific Coastline
Or
Northwest Coast
In Canada the four Inuit regions – Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, and Nunavik – are called ?
Inuit Nunangat.
Nehiyawak are as intricately connected with place as they are with each other. For example, a Nehiyawak worldview embodies the words _____ ____ ______ and is not just limited to their family or their co mmunity, but extends to every nation, every person
“all my relations”
Creation Story was called?
"Skywoman"
Unlike the Inuit and Nehiyawak, the Tlingit do not have ______ ______ __ ________ to manage governmental affairs.
village councils or confederacies
, a traditional homeland territory that includes _____ _____ and ____ ____ is integral to Inuit worldview.
sea ice and other marine water
“Tante ohci kiya" means?
“Where are you from?”
While Kanien:keha’ka worldviews do share some commonalities with other Indigenous peoples, their extensive _______ work with the land had a great influence on their worldviews.
agricultural
The twenty-one Ḵwáans of the Tlingit have distinct clan systems consisting of _______ or _______
moieties, or sides
Each person has value and contributes to their community (Tagalik 2010). This reliance has established codes of ethics and behaviours, or ?
Maligait
What role does the belly button play?
Belly button connects every person to their mother (who they came from).
A distinct connection existed between the women’s strong leadership in this provider role and the development of a ________ clan system.
matrilineal
Connections to the land are demonstrated through the designs created on clothing articles, such as the _____ _____ and button blankets.
Chilkaat robes
In regards to Maligait, Shirley Tagalik outlines four main principles ?
1. Working for the common good
2. Respecting all living things
3. Maintaining harmony and balance
4. Continually planning and preparing for the future
The Plains Nehiyawak believe that each Nehiyaw are given gifts from the Creator when they are born – the physical gift of the body, the emotional, mental and spiritual. In this way, the Nehiyawak term “all my relations” can be seen as:
A way to live in the world.
These kinship groups were linked together through ________ ________. The woman, her husband, and her daughters would live in her family's longhouse along with her daughter’s families and any unmarried sons. This system would ensure fair distribution and control of farmland and responsibilities (Bonvillain 2001).
Older, respected women were called clan mothers and often held critical roles in their clans due to the Kanien:keha’ka’s story of creation of Sky Woman. Women were seen as having direct links to the fertility of the land and as such were responsible for the caretaking of the land
marriage alliances
These designs owned by each moiety reflect the _______ to which they belong
landscape