Indigenous Society of Canada PDF

OLES OF MEN - Hunting ROLES OF WOMEN - Sewing - In charge of agriculture - Tending and harvesting crops - Looking after children - Looking for the next generation of leaders through their qualities ROLES OF CHILDREN - Help clean mothers to teach young girls to sew - Young g...

OLES OF MEN - Hunting ROLES OF WOMEN - Sewing - In charge of agriculture - Tending and harvesting crops - Looking after children - Looking for the next generation of leaders through their qualities ROLES OF CHILDREN - Help clean mothers to teach young girls to sew - Young girls are required to learn to sew - Making moccasins DAILY LIFE - Stayed in one specific spot for many years - If the crops start failing and soil becomes depleted, they move on - Living in settlements of up to 1,500 people (Longhouses) - Mother Earth is someone whom they respect - Haudenosaunee basket used to wash kernels of the corn so they could make soup using it LAND USES - Agriculture - Growing crops of corn, beans, and squash - Forest provided them with berries, roots, maple syrup, and game DECISION MAKING - Land cannot provide for them anymore - Land has great significance to them - People can go up to the Clan mothers with their problems, and then the Clan mothers might consult the leaders (in this case it is the Hoyaneh) LEADERS IN COMUNITY - Clan mothers - Hoyaneh (name for the leaders of the Mohawk nation) - Grand council - Peacemaker HOW MIGHT HAVE THIS SOCIETY INFLUENCES OUR LIVES IN CANADA TODAY? - Agriculture - Maple syrup - Sewing - Looking after children - Moving when the land needs time to regrow MALE ROLES - Working on arrows - Tracking deer - Harpoon the sturgeon - Netting fish WOMEN ROLES - Picking berries - Collecting plants - Harvest wild rice CHILDREN ROLES - Picking berries - Collecting plants - Harvest wild rice DAILY LIFE - Being kind to al living beings - Canoes were built for speed - Summer camps and winter camps - During the warmer months, they see old friends make new ones, food and sports gatherings, ceremonies, and arrange marriages - Wild rice is important LAND USES - Growing crops - Hunting deer and meat and hides - Fishing - Fires - Growing plants DECISION MAKING - Consensus - Leaders and meetings - Alliancing with different clans - Men and women sit in a circle in a dome shaped structure built for meetings LEADERS OF THE COMMUNITY - Ogimauh (leader of the dodem clan) - Elders HOW MIGHT HAVE THIS SOCIETY INFLUNCED OUR LIVES IN CANADA TODAY? - Fishing - Hunting - Growing gardens - Leaders - Meetings - Dome shaped buildings ROLES OF MEN: - Hunting (killed a moose = proving himself a man) - Fishing - Hunting - Attending councils - Runner is mentioned, but not determined whether female or male ROLES OF WOMEN: - Setting up the camp - Attending councils ROLES OF CHILDREN: - Learning how to hunt - Learning how to sew DAILY LIFE: - Creator is someone they worship - Wigwam, transportable house - Canoes for river transportation - Hunting - Creator is known by different clans LAND USES: - Digging a large round pond - Farming freshwater fish - Fishing in rivers for eels - Take young cod from under the ice DECISION MAKING: - Community called a meeting to decide - Those who are considered a man can participate - Women and children are also allowed to watch but their words have no outcome - Meetings could contain 150 or more people - Council of Elders presented a plan the Unama\'ki people agreed on - Saqamaw will most likely agree - Grand council COMMUNITY LEADER: - Elders are probably the community leaders - Chosen leader = Saqamaw HOW HAS THIS SOCIETY INFLUNECED OUR LIVES IN CANADA TODAY?: - Toboggan one of the first things that the Europeans adopted to survive in Canada - Canoes have also been adapted within the Europeans - Snowshoes most likely would have been used to influence our lives currently in Canada for walking around during the harsh, snowy winters up around the north