Shelley-Draft

__Sub-arctic__ 1.Q:What First Nation tribes lived here? What are some of the geographical characteristics of this region? 2.Q:What kind of foods was available? What did they do to obtain and preserve food? 3.Q:What kind of shelters did these First Nations groups build? What building materials did they use? How did this kind of shelters meet their needs? 4.Q:What did they use for transportation? What is it made of? 5.Q:What did they celebrate? 6.Q:How was power shared in their families, their tribe? What can you comment on the differences and similarities between the way power is shared among your family members that in this first nations group? 1.A:The Beaver, Kutchin, Dogrib, Cree, Ojibwa, Hare, Dene, Chipewyan, Naskipi, Yellowknife, Tutchome, Sekani people lived in the sub-arctic. There were rivers, rocks, lakes, and coniferous forests in the sub-arctic. Winters are long and cold and summers are short. 2.A:The people of the sub-arctic hunted large and small game animals.The also fished, sometimes they will dry the fish. Drying the fish is good way to preserve it. 3.A:The shelters of the sub-arctic met their needs because they are small and easy to set up and easy to carry because they had to move a lot to hunt. Each tribe had a different kind of shelter. Like the Dene people lived in Pit houses or tipis. A Pit house is a house made of layers of sod placed around driftwood or whalebone. 4.A:For transportation they mostly walked. In the winter they walked in snowshoes or by toboggans pulled by dogs and people. In the summer they moved along the river and lakes by canoes. The canoes were made by using wood. 5.A: The subarctic people belived that guardian sprits will protect them through hard times. They also believed that the sprit guardians can predict the weather to tell them where to find the game. They also have cry ceremonies. They have a sun danced that lasted for 4 days, no food or water. They had to pierced skin with buffalo horns and riped flesh from their bodies in offering to Great Manito. The Sacred Pipe was used in all ceremonies, mostly all the ceremonies was in the summer. The gifts were given in almost all the sacred ceremonies. 6.A:Most people had some medicine power, which was enhanced by a body of beliefs, such as customs observed after killing an animal. Chiefs chosen depending on the ceremony they had little power and influence. Chiefs had no authority except the ceremony they were governing.