Chapter 1: Aboriginal Societies

Question 1

Define: Active Citizenship

Answer 1

taking responsibility and getting involved to make your school, community, country, and world the kind of place you want it to be

Question 2

Define: Alliance

Answer 2

a union in which groups agree to trade and help each other resolve dispute

Question 3

Define: Clan mother

Answer 3

The head of a Haudenosaunee long house

Question 4

Define: Consensus

Answer 4

An agreement reached by a group as a whole

Question 5

Define: Core Values

Answer 5

An important idea or belief about how people should live

Question 6

Define: Culture

Answer 6

A way of life or a way of being shown by a group of people; culture includes the knowledge, experiences, and values a group shares

Question 7

Define: Democracy

Answer 7

A system of government in which the people in a nation are involved in decision making

Question 8

Define: Indigenous

Answer 8

The original habitants of a given area

Question 9

The Canadian government recognizes three groups of Aboriginal peoples. Who are they?

Answer 9

1. ) Inuit - Aboriginal people of northern Canada
2. ) Metis - People of mixed First Nations and European ancestry
3. ) First Nations - Aboriginal Peoples who are not Metis or Inuit (more than 600 across Canada)

Question 10

What core values did many many Aboriginal people share that contributed to their world view?

Answer 10

• talking stick help learn their history, lesson through talking
• satchel held their spirit and guiding leader

Question 11

How did people in hunter-gatherer economy get food?

Answer 11

People hunter-gatherer economy ate buffalo and made pemmican.