Native Groups

Question 1

The Inuit of the arctic

Answer 1

Northern Canada

Iglus

Used caribou skin as clothing(parkas)

Ate caribou and seals and fish.

Question 2

The Iroquois of the eastern woodlands

Answer 2

Large towns surrounded by fields of crops

Lived in long houses

Matrilineal and matrilocal

Civil chief- NORMAL activities of the clan

Military chief- settled conflicts with other groups

Chiefs chosen by women and elderly

Early agriculture- towns were small, then started becoming larger between 1200-1300 with over 2000 people

Tobacco was a valuable trade

Question 3

The people of the Plains

Answer 3

Depended on bison or buffalo, Nino was used for food, clothing, and tipi.

Bison herds were funnelled towards the kill location during a hunt. Blinds enclosed the hunt.

They were nomads

Invented Pemmican

Sun dance

Question 4

The people of the Plateau

Answer 4

Constructed pit houses

Relied heavily on salmon as dietary staple

Plants and berries were another staple food.

Deer and bison were hunted for food and clothing

Shells and soapstone were traded

Question 5

The people’s of the northwest coast

Answer 5

Villages had chiefs and nobles

They had potlatches(ceremony practised as the gifts of payments)
Potlatches were extremely important, it was an outward sign of a noble’s status. Any major event like the death of a grief or birth of an heir happened, it would be celebrated.

Created totem poles, ritual dances

Cedar was used in the construction of homes and Canoes, they built long houses,

Food in great variety was available. A seasonal round means food being collected at different times of the year.