Mid Term Cp 1-5 Flashcards
4 core values of First
Nations
Wisdom-The Elders are highly valued because of their time in the community
Nature-Everyday Nature feeds them and provides for them,everything is connected with nature
Spiritual-They believe that anything that happens in the real world happens in the spiritual
Peace-They need to live in the Peace for everyone and nature
3 Avoriginal groups
First Nation’s
Inuit
Métis
A M H
Local leaders were called Sagamaws
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A M H
They lived in what today are New Brunswick,Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and the Gaspé Peninsula.
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A M H
There were seven districts and a Grand Council
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A M H
They believed they should respect nature and take only what they need from the land
A M H
A M H
They were organized into clans
A M H
A M H
Decisions were made by consensus
A M H
A M H
They collecting of maple syrup was an important part of the economy
A H
A M H
They farmed
A H
A M H
They lived in longhouse in which ad many as a hundred people lived in
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A H M
Connections to the past played an important role in their identity.
A M H
A M H
They traced their family trees through their mothers
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A M H
They were a confederacy of five and later six nations
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A M H
Their”Three Sister were corn,beans, and squash
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A M H
They lived around the Great Lakes
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A M H
They lived in the area south of the St. Lawrence River
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A M H
The Great Law of Peace guided them in how yo make decisions
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A M H
Wild rice was an important food
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A M H
They were mainly hunters and gatherers
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A M H
Women influenced decisions that were made
A M H
A M H
They harvested wild rice
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A M H
They spent summers near the coast, and then .over inland during the winter
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Definition of Ethnocentric
Judging other cultures and ideas according to personal values and standards and believing ones own ethnic group is superior