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First Nations vocab Flashcards

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Hunting

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The activity of hunting wild animals or game

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Subsistence

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All people have to eat to survive. Anthropologists use the technical term “subsistence” to refer to the diet of human groups

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Gathering

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Collecting

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Domesticated

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A plant or animal adapted for human use

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Shamanism

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The belief that everything in the world has a spirit and that certain special people can communicate with the spirt world

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Kinship

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Describes how a person identifies his or her blood relatives
Through mothers family

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Ancestry

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Heritage

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Nomadic

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A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move accordingly to the seasons

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Palisade

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A defensive fence

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Nuclear family

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A mother, a father, and their children

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Extended family

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The people related to the members of the nuclear family

Mothers mother or sister

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Edible

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Able to be eaten

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Rank

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Status position in a group

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Habitation

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A place to stay

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Ceremonial

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With dignity observing the occasion

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Bilateral kinship

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Ancestry is reckons through the mothers and fathers families

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Pemmican

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An extremely useful and nutritious food

Lard
Dried berries
Dried ground bison meat

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Pit house

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A home built partly underground

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Patriarchal

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Status and power controlled by men

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Matriarchal

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Status and power controlled by women

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Midden

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A heap of garbage, shells, or other debris

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Concentration

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The measure of how many people there are relative to the space they occupy

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Soap stone

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A soft stone

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Stand

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Types of trees covering an area

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Landslide

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The rapid downward movement of land on a slope

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