Chapter 1- Aboriginal Societies.

Question 0

Where have First Nation lived in Canada so far?

Answer 0

Everywhere!

Question 1

What is active citizenship.

Answer 1

Doing things in your community to benefit others and to shape it.

Question 2

What are core values?

Answer 2

Core values are important ideas or beliefs about how people should live

Question 3

What did the aboriginal people believe?

Answer 3

• People are not depend from nature or from the non living world. Everything on earth is connected
• The wisdom and experience of elders is highly valued. Elders deserve the respect of all members of the community
• A spiritual world exists. It plays a very important role in all that happens on earth
• People must live in harmony with each other and balance with nature

Question 4

Who are the First Nations people?

Answer 4

They are the indigenous peoples to North America

Question 5

What do each First Nations group have unique beliefs about?

Answer 5

On how the earth was created and how people came to exist

Question 6

What are traditional teachings?

Answer 6

Be leads passed down from generation to generation

Question 7

What is one way elder teach morals and values?

Answer 7

By stories

Question 8

What did the book mean by saying the Europeans were very ethnocentric?

Answer 8

They judged other global cultures and ideas according to European standards and and values

Question 9

Where did the Mi’kmaq live?

Answer 9

In eastern Canada the woodlands of Nova Scotia, pei, and New Brunswick

Question 10

What did the Mi’kmaq people do for a living?

Answer 10

They were hunters, fishers , and gatherers

Question 11

What are clans?

Answer 11

Small villages of extended families

Question 12

What did the clan system do?

Answer 12

The clan system helped the co operate , live together in harmony, and share resources

Question 13

What did the Mi’kmaq think about humans being put on the earth?

Answer 13

The hey thought they were put I earth by the creator Kisúlk

Question 14

What did the Mi’kmaq government allow the to do?

Answer 14

Allowed the people to login harmony, work today get her and get things done

Question 15

What was each clans local leader called?

Answer 15

A Sagmaw, he was usually a good hunter and new how to search for game

Question 16

What did each Mi’kmaq district leader have to do?

Answer 16

They had the power to make war or peace, they settled disputes and divided hunting and fishing territories

Question 17

Why were Mi’kmaq leaders chosen?

Answer 17

For their ability their ability to reach an agreement among people

Question 18

What was the role of women in Mi’kmaq communities?

Answer 18

They were responsible for families, they raised the children, took care of the homes, hunted small game, prepared food, and made clothing

Question 19

Who are the Haudenosaunee?

Answer 19

They are are a group that contains six first nations: Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora

Question 20

What language did the Haudenosaunee speak?

Answer 20

Algonquin

Question 21

What are some of the Haudenosaunee values and beliefs?

Answer 21

collective thinking and considering future generations

decision making by consensus and considering all points of veiws

sharing labour and the benefits of that labour

duty to family, clan, nation and the Iroquois confederacy

Equality, everyone is an equal and full partner in society

Question 22

What did the Haudenosaunee do for a living?

Answer 22

they hunted, fished, gathered nuts, roots and berries. and they also farmed

Question 23

What were the three sisters all about?

Answer 23

They were corn, beans, and squash. They were always planted together to help each other grow.

Question 24

What did each plant do in the three sisters?

Answer 24

The corn supported the climbing beans, the squash discouraged weeds from crowding the corn and beans. The squash leaves shaded the soil

Question 25

What plants do the Haudenosaunnee grow?

Answer 25

Cucumber, tobacco, melons, potatoes, turnips, squash, beans and, corn

Question 26

The head of each Haudenosaunnee longhouse was a ?

Answer 26

Woman

Question 27

In a Haudenosaunnee longhouse each clan had an animal ?

Answer 27

Symbol

Question 28

What are the female responsibilities in a Haudenosaunnee clan?

Answer 28

• Deciding location of new village
• Deciding what crops to plant and where they should be planted
• Deciding weather they should go to war

Question 29

What was the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 29

It was an alliance between the Haudenosaunnee nations. The Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk

Question 30

Who chose the Haudenosaunnee Clan leader?

Answer 30

The clan mother

Question 31

What is the central council?

Answer 31

The council consisted of 50 leaders chosen by the clan mother. They met once a year to discuss issues

Question 32

What are the 7 Anishinabe values?

Answer 32

Wisdom: to cherish knowledge
Love: To know peace
Respect: To honor all creation
Bravery: to face your foes
Honesty: to face a situation 
Humility: to know yourself
Truth: to know all these things

Question 33

What were the Anishinabe?

Answer 33

Like the Mi’kmaq they were hunter gatherers

Question 34

What food source set the Anishinabe apart from other First Nations groups?

Answer 34

Wild rice

Question 35

How did the Haudenosaunnee make a living and get their food source?

Answer 35

From farming

Question 36

What did the women do in Anishinabe culture?

Answer 36

They looked after children, hunted, they harvested food, and most importantly rice