unit 2 test Flashcards
(37 cards)
identify the three branches of aboriginals in Canada, and explain the meaning behind each name
first nations is a common title used to describe very societies of addition of peoples in North America, or not of inuit or métis descent
Inuit are the people of arctic Canada who live in the territories and parts of Quebec and some of labrador
Métis people mixed heritage native in European
what are the three main traditional aboriginal world view
everything in the world both living and nonliving is interconnected
All living things and objects have spirit anisim
Humans need to be in harmony with nature, and with each other 
what are their beliefs?
everything in the world is alive, even in their afterlife their spirits returned to the environment
Most believe in a creator of the great spirit, however, power in the universe is also given to other spirits, who are less powerful than the creator
they believe they have more than one specific need a nature or in life
what is animism
animism is where they believe that all things human and not human have spirit and soul, and that the person or animal lives on after test through the presence of the spirit
Explain shaman in three points
aboriginals pass on each other. Their knowledge of the spirit powers through teachings, mainly oral teachings
Certain men and women possesses a greater quantity of power than other such as a person is known as a shaman or a medicine person.
Traditionally, The Shamen uses these powers for the benefit of the community, helping hunters to find their prey, making raid for farmers, especially healing, the sick. 
Explain elders and three points
an elder is a man or a woman who is recognized by his or her community to be a wise person, full of knowledge and experience.
They pass on practical daily knowledge and are also the keepers of traditions. They tell stories of the religion and active spiritual guides
They are important touchstones to the past, as they impart knowledge and skills for the present and future, and are highly valued in their community. 
elders today and three-pointers point
The knowledge of elders is no taught at many inspirational schools and consulted by the government in Nunavut in northwest territories politicians make important decisions
In many communities elders act, his counsellors and teachers to aboriginal youth
Define creation, myths
Explain the origins of the Earth, an individual aspects of nature
Heroic myths
people that played a fundamental role in society? 
cultural myths
How rituals and customs come to be
Trickster myths
how suffering in mystery come into our lives 
divine myths
oh, Gods came to be linked to creation myths
explain the European an aboriginal relationship
Europeans came to North America’s explorers traders colonizer settlers in the missionaries. The Europeans an aboriginal peoples had both positive and negative impacts on each other overtime. The relationship between the two changed as a Europeans wanted more control. 
what is the positive impact of that your European, and aboriginal relationship
Aboriginal peoples exposed to the early explorers to new agricultural technique send new ways of coping with the challenges of survival. What are Europeans provided tools that foster the development of the aboriginal culture
what negative relationship did the European and aboriginal people cause 
The Indian act in both 18, 676 and 1895 encourage arbitral people to give up their culture in adopt new white Waze many Europeans consider their own ways of lies by average always had supplies they believe the original people should give up their own traditions, and starting 1885 aboriginal ceremonies days of the festivals were banned 
what are residential schools?
By mid 1800s, the Canadian government was finding residential school system for the aboriginal peoples children removed from the reserves in place often for away from their communities in boarding schools in The School, The, Abbott, Chill, Chill, Doral Tire, that it was wrong to practice their culture always
The circle original symbol
The circle is an unbroken line which has no beginning no end no direction represents a completeness which encompasses all space and time 
The sacred drum symbol
Patron is a painful instrument used in many original rituals referred to as the heartbeat of the mother. Earth believed that the beat of the drum has the power to change natural elements, including the weather.
medicine wheel symbol
The circle represents the continuous cycle of life the powers of the four directions northeast southwest organize everything that exists seasons races elements of the universe, the stages of life aspects of human personality
Totem pole symbol
Wooden columns that are covered for the girls that have symbolic meaning to the individual carving it. They were account, legends, family heritage, and notable events.
hair symbol
Some consider long and cut hair to be sacred three strands of the bracing, if I the body mind and spirit coming together as one
The potlatch, virtual/ceremony
Meaning of feast, where rich and wealthy originals, gather, they destroy or giveaway possessions to show generosity or to pass on family inheritance
The purpose is to demonstrate wealth and noble status, and create bonds between the rich and the poor
Sacred articles, such as valuable goods,
Sacred connection, such as spread joy the drum can communicate to the spiritual world, and gifts are created from the natural world
smudging ritual
Meaning, practice of burning various medicinal plants to cleanse
Purpose, used to cleanse. 5+ a specific area of her mother Earth, connect Sara spears with the creator
Secret article says Cedars week, rest of Eco,
Speaker, connection, promos, harmony, and balance for cleansing the body, mind and spirit builds a centre can you create a relationship with your creator and provides a way for people to receive spiritual blessings, and protection
The sweat lodge virtual
Meaning, a heated dome shaped structure used by average of people for ritual purposes, purpose purification the heat and steam, cleanse the body, mind and spirit.
Secret articles, tobacco, serious request, buffalo skull, prayer pipe, new paragraph, super connections the creation dome is made up of resources, which are gifts from the Earth by the community colleges, interconnectedness of life.
