Week 5

Question 1

subsistence societes/ tribal societies

Answer 1

foraging
no surplus
no farming/ agriculture
tolerance for uncertainty
lived close to land
social structure coordinate with rhythms of land

Question 2

Primitivism vs Progress (edit)

Answer 2

Social constructs, (agriculture both)

Question 3

Primitivism ideas (3)

Answer 3

Subsistence, Agriculture, simple

Question 4

Progress

Answer 4

Industrial, complex (hierarchies, surplus

Question 5

Food Production

Answer 5

domesticating animals and plants for consumption

Question 6

Global Expansion of Europe

Answer 6

Resource hungry, shortage of land

Portugal, Spain, France, England,, Holland

Question 7

Ming Empire/ Asian Empires (India/ Japan)

Answer 7

Advanced but did not advance

Question 8

Mayan, Inka, Pueblo

Answer 8

Large scale settlements, large populations

• surplus leading to social structures, religious institutions, urban environments and occupational change

Question 9

Affluent Societies

Answer 9

people who lived off foraging but still had food surpluses

Question 10

Mobile groups

Answer 10

land tenure not fixed, shared territory, different for sedentary groups

Question 11

Land tenure

Answer 11

Did not exist for Indigenous groups, instead belonging and connection to land

Question 12

Anishinaabe

Answer 12

Groups in Clan system…

Question 13

Wendat - Wyandot - Huron

Answer 13

• North Great Lakes
• Agriculture and Hunting
• Had settlements
• Matrilinear: families follow mother

Question 14

Haudensoaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy)

Answer 14

• Similar to Wendat
• Working to Soverignty from Canada and US

Question 15

Metis

Answer 15

Dual background from fur trade, mixed blood (meaning)

Question 16

Innu

Answer 16

• Harvesters and Hunters
• Lived along river system

Question 17

Cree Nehiyaw

Answer 17

• Divided by regions
• Hunters and gatherers
• no clan system
• mobile

Question 18

Siksika (Blackfoot)

Answer 18

• horses
• bison hearders

Question 19

Sechem

Answer 19

Native leaders of communities

Question 20

Mestizo

Answer 20

Mixed Mexican/ Settler Descendants

Question 21

Indigenous peoples of Americas

Answer 21

• Suffered from colonization
• Foragers/ farmers
• Many endangered languages
• High population in South (Bolivia, Ecudaor, Guatemala)
• Uncontacted Amazon Basin
• World Leaders/ Rights in Canada/ US

Question 22

Similarities between Africa/ Arctic Indigenous Groups

Answer 22

• Inhabit difficult terrains which protected them from colonizers to some extent, now face pressures of resource extraction

Question 23

Global Patterns of Indigenous groups (5)

Answer 23

• Subsistence societies
• false dichotomy of primitive vs progressive
• false portrayal of victims of progress
• drawn strength from their cultures to survive colonialism
• deep relationship with territories that emphasize equality, reciprocity, coordination and flexibilty