Indigenous Flashcards
Animism:
All things human or non human have spirits and souls and they live after death
Dream Catcher:
If hung over your bed, bad dreams are filtered through the web and dissipate into the universe, good dreams are caught in the web
Eagle Feathers:
-Strength(power to represent others)
-Symbol of healthy relationship
-They believe the Creator loves the eagle most because it flies closest to her. Symbolizes duality or contradictions of life (dark and light colours) man or woman, darkness or lightness, etc
Grandfather Teachings:
teaching a young boy how to be a good person. You can’t have 1 teaching without the other…
Grandfather Teachings: Love
Eagle
Grandfather Teachings: Respect
Buffalo
Grandfather Teachings: Bravery
Bear
Grandfather Teachings: Truth
Turtle
Grandfather Teachings: Honesty
Crow
Grandfather Teachings: Humility
Wolf
Grandfather Teachings: Wisdom
Beaver
Nunavut
-In 1999 Canada established Nunavut
-Self-governing, very important for Aboriginal groups to protect their heritage
-Home to over 27,000 (80% Inuit)
-Nunavut means “our land”
-Canadian government pledged to respect traditions of Inuit
Residential Schools
-government sponsored religious schools that were made to change Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture.
-Ran by Christian churches
-First school in 1831 Brantford
-Last School closed 1996 in Saskatchewan
-Estimate of 150,000 attended these schools
-Roughly 6000 children died here
-Over 130 residential schools
-Apologies from the prime ministers took place
-Truth and reconciliation created
Sweat Lodge
-Great plains nations
-Renews the soul and helps regain focus
-Sweat lodge cleanses physical and spiritual body
-Under direction of Shaman, medicine man & spiritual leader participates make a sauna- construction
-Heat causes sweat & cleanses the body
Smudging Ceremony
-one of the most popular rituals
-burning of sweet grass and drawing smoke ritualy over bodies
-this helps to clear one’s thought, wash away imprints and focus on a positive future.
