Simran - First People
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- squash
- A field crop grown by the Huron First Nation.
- Mohawk
- a tribe in the Iroquois Confederacy.
- culture area
- an area where people share many features of the same culture.
- culture
- the way a group of people live.
- igloo
- The Inuit word for snowhouse.
- Blackfoot
- the strongest Aboriginal nation on the Plains.
- HBC
- Hudson Bay Company.
- democracy
- Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representative.
- dispersal
- The act or process of spread out or the condition of being disperse.
- wampum
- used among the Iroquoians both as money and as a record of treaties.
- totem poles
- built by west coast tribes to honor their family.
- canoe
- They were used by the First Nations and later by the explorers and fur traders for travelling throughout Canada.
- Buffalo
- the most important source of food on the plains.
- Nootka
- An Aboriginal tribe on the west coast.
- travois
- made of two crossed poles pulled behind a horse for carrying loads.
- coniferous
- trees that bear cone.
- maize
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears.
- Subarctic
- a huge area of North America which spreads from Alaska in the west to the Maritimes in the East.
- potlach
- a feast at which the host gave away many gifts.
- geology
- The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth.
- Sun Dance
- A dance where the Plains Indian sought a vision to guide them for the rest of their lives.