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Eastern Subarctic Flashcards

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Where is the Eastern Subarctic

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Northeastern Manitoba, northern Ontario and Quebec, Labrador, and Newfoundland

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What period were the first inhabitants of the Eastern Subarctic from

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Paleo Indian Period

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Who were the first occupants in the Paleo Indian Period

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Clovis culture
11,500 - 10,900 BP

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Describe the Paleo Indian Period (Time, hunter/gatherer, Tools, practices)

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Period of transition for North America (Warming, Extinctions, landscapes)

11,500 – 7,500 BP across southern Canada

Megafauna hunters

Started to see regional cultural diversity

Tools: clovis points, shaft straighteners

Habitation near water sources
Quarry sites
Seasonal dispersal
Ochre used in burials

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Describe early Eastern Subarctic habitation

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Few sites (glaciation)

8000 BP

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Describe the Archaic Period in the Eastern Subarctic (Date, Diversity)

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7,500 BP - 3,000 BP
Diversification of cultural practices based upon the region
Shield and maritime archaic

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Describe the Shield Archaic (location, hunter/gatherer, Technology, 3 main categories of tools, resources, major archaeology issues)

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Inland Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba

Terrestrial hunters

Technology based on land resource exploitation

Three main categories of tools: Scrapers, knives, projectile points (spear heads)

Watercraft use

Copper usage

Preservation, site visibility, access

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Describe the Maritime Archaic (Subsistence, Migration, tools, practices)

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Subsistence based on maritime resources

Dugout boat construction

Migration based on resources

Toolkits adapted to dual environment exploitation

trade networks wiht the south

Ornamental and religious items

Burial mounds

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Describe the time period after the archaic (cultural behaviours, time)

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Following the end of the Archaic periods in the Eastern Subarctic new cultural behaviours emerge in the maritime and boreal forest regions
3,000 – 1,000 BP

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Who replaced the maritime Archaic after the Archaic

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Within coastal regions the Maritime Archaic peoples are replaced by the Early Pre-Thule and Dorset cultures

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What did the Shield Archaic transition to? Practices?

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Shield Archaic transitions to the early woodland period

Same subsistence period

Introduction of pottery

Few grave goods

Doors always faced east (rising sun)

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What is the Laurel tradition

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Culture of the woodland period.

Characteristic pottery unlike modern ceramics

Conoidal or pointed bases

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Describe the occupation of newfound lands

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  • First occupation dates for the island ~5,000 BP
  • Maritime Archaic culture
  • Introduction of Pre-Thule and Dorset groups about 2,800 BP
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Describe the late Woodland Period (Time, subsistence, traditions)

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1,000 BP to European contact

No major shift in subsistence (diversification based on region)

New stylistic tradition

Blackduck pottery

Selkirk pottery

continuation of Laurel traditions

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Types of pottery in the late woodland period

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Blackduck pottery
Selkirk pottery

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Describe rock art. Two forms?

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Imagery on rock facts in important locations

Two forms: pictographs and petroglyphs

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Pictographs vs Petroglyphs

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  • Pictographs
    Images that are painted onto rocks
    Paints a mixture of coloured ochre and a binding agent (water, grease)
  • Petroglyphs
    Images that are chipped into a rock face
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Describe the current Eastern Subarctic Populations

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Part of the larger Algonquian language family

Cree

Naskapi

Montagnais or Innu

Algonquin

ANishinaabe

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What is the culture in Newfoundland that developed form the Maritime Archaic

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Beothuk culture

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Describe the Beothuk culture (Structure, Subsistence, where did they live, technology, practices)

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Structured around extended families
Primary subsistence from seals, salmon, and sea birds
Primarily lived on coast
Maritime technology (Harpoons, canoes)
Terrestrial technology
(Bow and arrow, drive lanes)
Elaborate burials

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First European contact in Newfoundland?

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Norse contact around 1,000 BP

Estblished L’Anse aux Meadows

Vinland

Traded but conflict lead to the Norse leaving

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Describe the permanent European settlement in Newfoundalnd

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Italian John Cabot reached the coast of Newfoundland in 1497
* Commissioned by Henry VII of England to find a passage to Asia
* Made landfall on what today is believed to be Bonavista Bay in eastern Newfoundland
* Did not leave the shore
- Basque whalers and cod fishers enter around 1525

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How did the european settlers interact with Algonquian groups and Beothuk groups

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Trading relationships between the Basque and Algonquian groups
Beothuk groups avoided contact

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Describe the extinction of the Beothuk Culture

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Populations moved inland to avoid contact
Which impacted their subsistence bcause they relied on maritime resources they were out competed

Infectious diseases and violence with European settlers led to a population decrease over the next 300 years

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What is Shanawdithit

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  • Shanawdithit – “Last of the Beothuk

1801

Encountered trappers and was taken to St. Johns where she reufsed to work and died of tuberculosis

provided much of the known oral history of Beothu culture

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Describe the inland contact with subarctic groups

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  • First major European settlement in Quebec– Samuel de Champlain
  • Gradual expansion north and west as European fur market expanded
  • English directly enter region through James Bay in 1670
  • Royal Charter granted to the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670
  • Inland trade impacted Indigenous groups
  • Disruption of traditional economies and subsistence practices

Introduction of alcohol and diseases

Increase in violence

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Describe the interaction between subarctic groups and the government

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No large involvement by government within these regions

Treaties were drafted in conflict areas

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What is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement

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Implemented in 1975

Response to hydroelectric development in Northern Quebec

Delineated: indigenous land rights, environmental and social protections, economic development and compensation, education, government, health care

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What are mammoths (Genus, Time period, size, Subsistence, adaptions, how much did they need to eat)

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Elephantid genus

Wooly mammoths present in NA during last Ice Age

Between 2.3m and 3.5m high

Weighed between 2.8 and 8.2 metric tons

Grasses and sedges

Adapted to the cold

trunk allowed them to pick up plants and large sections of grass

Molars adapted for grinding and processing plants

Adults needed to forage 180 kg daily

Well suited for Beringia

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What happened after 8,000 BP in the east?

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Settlement beginning at about 8,000 BP
Northern Plano point tradition
Transition to Shield Archaic technologies at around 6,000 BP
Technology similar to that of the Shield Archaic in the Eastern
Subarctic (lanceolate points, spear and possible atlatl, copper usage)

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Describe the artic peoples in the subarctic around 4, 000 BP (Migration, which cultures, meet the shield archaic?)

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Cooling period that occurred ~4,000 BP
Expansion of Pre-Thule (Pre-Dorset) groups eastward
Also moved to the south
Likely did not meet the shield Archaic groups
Moved north around 2,600 with warming

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Describe migration with warming temperatures around? (which culture developped)

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New peoples move into the newly established boreal forests

Taltheilei tradition

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Describe the early Taltheilei (When, technology)

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2,600 BP - 1,800 BP
Lanceolate points
Chi-thos

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What are Chi-thos

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Circular hide scraping tools

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Describe the middle Taltheilei (When, tech)

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1,800-1,100 BP
* Use of lanceolate points similar to the Northern Plano
* Smaller points that may be from arrows
* Occupied only the high northern portions of the southern provinces

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Describe the Laurel tradition in this region (When, where, tech)

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  • 1,600 – 700 BP
  • Emerges and expands from the east
  • Occupies the southern boreal forest areas
  • Atlatl use with bow and arrow suspected of being used ~900 BP
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Describe the Late Taltheilei (When, Tech)

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  • Late Taltheilei – 1,100 – 300 BP
  • Side- and corner-notched points
  • Spear, atlatl, and bow and arrow use
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Describe the blackduck and Selkirk in this reaction

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  • Blackduck – 1,200 – 600 BP
  • Selkirk – 700 – 300 BP
39
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Who is associated with who out of the following groups
Past:
Taltheilei
Selkirk
Dakota
Modern:
Siouxan language/ wahpeton nation
Athapaskan language groups
Cree (Algonquian)

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  • Taltheilei associated with Athapaskan language groups
  • Selkirk associated with Cree (Algonquian)
    Dakota and Whapeton
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How did trade with Europeans impact Indigenous societies within this region

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  • Cree migrated west with the trade
  • Attempted to exclude Athapaskan groups from direct contact
  • Smallpox in Cree groups forced them south
  • Athapaskan and Inuit groups moved south in response
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What was settler and governmental interaction with the region based around

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Resources

42
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What are the ecological practices in this region

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  • Anthropogenic burning
  • Practice of using traditional knowledge in ecological management
  • Controlled fires set to create a patchwork of environments in the
    boreal forest
  • Grasslands or “islands”
  • Custom hunting areas
  • Also rejuvenated the forest
  • New growth
  • Diminished the impact of fires regionally

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