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    Canada: A Peoples History

    Aboriginal Peoples Q&A

    Episode 1: When the World Began


    1. What Aboriginal group originally inhabited Newfoundland? Beothuk
    2. Why were they referred to as the Red Indian?
    Covered their bodies with red Ocher
    3. What does one legend say The Creator did after he made the world?
    Creator made the world and then went to rest. His stone image looked like a man. The creator
    breathed life into the stone and it came alive.
    4. How many languages existed in the area that was to become Canada? 50
    5. What were the roles of the First Peoples?
    Villagers, nomads, hunters, warriors, peacemakers
    6. How did the Aboriginal People pass on the knowledge of how the world came to be? Story telling
    The Crossing
    7. How did these different societies believe they came to be?
    A. Iroquois:
    C. Blackfoot:
    st
    1 people fell out of the sky on
    old man moulded them from clay and water
    A back of a turtle
    B. Haida:
    D. Salish:
    Raven released them from a
    a long trek across a large body of water. Cold wind
    Giant clasp of a clam
    gave them ice, so they could cross and ice
    melted so
    Enemies could not follow.
    8. Why did the First Peoples cross the land bridge?
    In search of food, following the herds of caribou
    9. Describe the route followed by the First People as they inhabited North America.
    From land bridge they moved south, when the ice receded they moved north east
    10. How many years ago did they reach the shores around Labrador? 7000
    11. What is this area on the coast of Labrador known for? Land of the Walrus
    12. Describe the burial site of the 12 year old boy.
    Along the coast of Labrador, stones and arrows placed over the body, with the body facing
    downward
    Women and Men
    13. What did the Blackfoot of the Plains refer to their Creator as? Napee
    14. A. According to legend, how did the women perceive the men?
    They were dirty, uncivilized, out of control
    B. How did the men perceive the women?
    They were dangerous
    15. Describe the role of the men in the village? The role of the women?
    Lineage = mothers bloodline
    Women = farming, butchering animals, taking care of children
    Men = warfare and hunting
    16. What was the purpose of a vision quest? Describe the process.
    Boy would bathe and live alone for 3-5days without food. Animals tested courage; voice tells him to
    stay a certain # of nights and at the end the voice will tell him what his protector would be and now
    he is a warrior

    Running Across the Sky


    17. From where and when did the Inuit trace their heritage? By sea and from the west
    18. Describe the lifestyle of the Inuit.
    They used everything to survive, nothing was wasted, had a stubborn will to survive, used fat for
    fuel, skins for clothing, followed migrating animals.

    War
    19. Describe the purpose of songs and dances to the Aboriginal People.
    Story tellers, there was a dance for every aspect of life, from puberty to war, to defend ancestral land

    20. The Huron of the Great Lakes area were Farmers and the Iroquois were Warriors.
    21. Describe the worst fate of a warrior.
    Captured alive was worst fate, victor performed rituals over the captor, Death songs were song,
    captor would endure pain and suffering for days, it was public ceremony.

    Cycle of Warfare and Death


    22. Name the five warring camps of the Iroquois.
    Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca.
    23. Describe the Alliance that made the Iroquois the strongest political and military force in eastern North
    America.
    Union meant they were stronger, arrows together could not be broken = tribes together could not be
    broken. The Iroquois Confederacy.

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