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First Nations
Native people
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Social Studies
6th Grade
12/11/2011

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A relative who lived a long time ag

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ancestor

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a large Aborigial group living in the same area, sharing a common culture and language

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tribe
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to do with soul or religion and not with the physical things
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spiritual
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an alliance of several tribes involving the sharing of powers
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confederacy
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a geographic region occupied by different trbes who share similar cultures
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cultural area
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people of the northwes coast
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fishers
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people of the Artic
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hunters and fishers
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people of the plains
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hunters and gathers
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woodland people
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farmers and hunters
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the cultural areas located in Ontario
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Eastern woodlands

subartic

all the above

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language family that extended across the southern Ontario and Quebec
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Iroqouian

Algonquian

Athabaskan

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Ironquian confederacies consisted of Native tribes to the north and south of Lake Ontario who were similar  to each in
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culture

language

all the above

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the churchill river is considered the approximate dividing line between the Athabaskan and Algonquian language families
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true
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the aboriginal people in prehistoric times had a written language
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false
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one of the most important means by which good and ideas circulatedin pre-european canada and the US was trade
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true
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the natives people view nature as a ____ with humans as equal partners with all other parts of the natural world
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web
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Quebec city is built on the site of a native village which used to be called _____
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stadacona
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an important longhouse villae along the banks of the St. Lawrence was ___where present day Montreal now stands
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Mochelaga
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the language today by the _____ people is based on some o the same principles as the sign language of the Natives Peoples
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hearing impared
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the language of the Inuit, __, is the only Native language that shows any similarity with some languages of Asia
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Inuktitut
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linguists grouped related Aboriginal languages together into __ language families in Canada
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12
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several tribes created confederations during the1400's in order to...
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cut down on fighting between the tribes and for self protection and to increase their trading area
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stones were used for...
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axes and spears
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shells were used for ...
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jewelrey
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horns were used for...
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spears and tools
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list 3 main trade items in Pre-European Canada
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copper

shells

hard volcanic rocks

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list 3 waterways used as transportation in Pre-European Canada and US
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ohio river

st. lawrence

mississippi

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name 3 diseases the Europeans brought over with them to the New World
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polio

Black Death

plague

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name 4 things that make up an environment
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climate

landscape

wildlife

vegetation

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