First Nations

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First Nations

• Inquiry Project

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Human History

• The events of human history are intrinsically
  linked to the complexities of geography
• climate,
• land and water resources,
• plants and animals,
• and transportation routes.

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Subsistence

• The means of living
• obtaining food and shelter necessary to support
  life
• everything that is done to "make a living"

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Hunting and Gathering

• seasonal migration to match
• the hunting/fishing times or harvest time for
• berries.
• connected to social structure
• What are the differences between hunting and
  gathering and agriculture as modes of life?
  (men/women, wealth, tribal size, housing)

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Agriculture

• The word culture comes from the Latin cultivare,
  to till, to take care of.
• cultivating
• clearing ground, irrigating, fertilizing, and
  draining.

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Religion

• Distinct worldview
• human beings as inhabiting a universe made by the
  Creator
• in respectful relationship with nature, one
  another, and oneself.
• Each Aboriginal culture expresses this worldview
  in different ways,
• with different practices, stories and cultural
  products.

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Social Organization

• Tribal structure
• Roles, class distinctions
• Political systems
• Decision-making
• Trade, commerce, economics
• Prestige, status, rank, privilege
• Slavery, leadership, political power, governance

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Leadership and Government

• Family systems
• How leader are chosen
• Who makes what decisions
• democratic

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Kinship

• Relation to social structure
• Marriage rules
• Ownership rights
• Extended family