EF 5/6 June 22

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• First Nations -Who they are?

• Small groups

“What do you know about First Nations people in Canada?”

Generate ideas on LCD 

• First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples constitute Indigenous peoples in Canada, also called First Peoples. First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term Indians

• Aboriginal, Indigenous

• First Nations- Indigenous people in the South (below Arctic Circle). Half of all First Nations bands are in Ontario and BC.

• Inuit are the Indigenous people who live in the North. Used to be called ‘Eskimo’- disparaging term from French Esquimaux, from Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’. Montagnais, or Innu, are the Indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador.

Discredited etymology ‘raw fish eater’

Website: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/#nunangat

Show map: “Inuit Map”

• Metis a person of mixed Indigenous and European-American ancestry, in particular one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Metis nation in the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers. Metis comes from the French word ‘métis’, which means ‘mixed’.

• 1600s Thousands of French men hunting, trapping beaver

The Hudson’s Bay Company, “The Bay”

• Where did First Nations people come from?

• Every group/country/people/religion has a creation story

• Christian – The Bible – creation story – Adam and Eve, The Garden of 

Eden

• First Nations Creation Stories / Creation Myths

myth – legend, fiction, story, has a lot of meaning to the culture

Greek myths – Ancient Greece

Myth of Echo, Echo - nymph

Echo was in love with a boy, Narcissus, narcissist, narcissism

Narcissus fell into the water and drowned

Echo was so heartbroken, that she disappeared. The only thing that is left is her voice.

• Read “The Beginning of the HaidiGwaii World” on LCD

• Talk about Raven

- prominent role in the mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishians, Haidas, Heiltsuks, Tlingits, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit. The raven in these indigenous peoples' mythology is the Creator of the world, but it is also considered a trickster god.

-two different raven characters:

-the creator raven, responsible for bringing the world into being and who is sometimes considered to be the individual who brought light to the darkness

-the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry

• Show pictures “Raven1” “Raven2” “Raven and the First Men”

“Spirit of Haida Gwaii”

Haida jewelry

bear raven orca fox wolf eagle salmon

Bill Reid – popular Haida artist

• archaeology –study of human history

Terra Cotta warriors – China

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