alberta first nations: our questions
First Nations. Questions.
Origins and History
How did First Nations people come to Canada and Alberta?
When did they come to Alberta?
Where did they come from?
How long did they live here before European settlers arrived?
How many First Nations are in Alberta?
How do we learn about their history?
Did they have wars with European settlers in Alberta?
Did the different nations trade between each other? Did they trade with Europeans? What did they trade?
What are the reserves?
Life in Alberta
What natural resources did they use?
What did they use for medicine?
How did they survive the winter?
What simple machines did they use?
Did all tribes live in one place, or did they move around?
What were their means of transportation?
Did they have money? What kind of currency did they have?
How did they make clothes?
Family and children
Did they have schools? How did the children learn? What did they learn?
Did the children from different tribes learn together?
Could the children have friends in other tribes?
Traditions
What are their traditions?
Did they have writing?
How did they record their history?
What holidays do they celebrate?
What languages did they speak? Did they speak English?
How did they choose their names? Names of the tribes?
Tribes
What are the tribes? How did they form?
How many people are in the tribe?
Did every different tribe speak a different language?
Were there wars between the tribes? Were there conflicts within the same tribe?
Did tribes have alliances?
Could one chief lead 2 different tribes?
Were there physical borders between the tribes? Did all the tribes are a land of a similar size?
Social Structure
Why do they need chiefs? What does it mean to be a chief?
How do they select a chief? Was there an age requirement?
How do they choose elders? What does it mean to be an elder?
Do they have rules? How are the rules made?
How people in tribes agree on important decisions?
Who decides where to hunt, when to hunt?
Did you get punished if you did something wrong, if they disobeyed the rules? What were the punishments?
Did people in the tribe have assigned jobs?
Origins and History
How did First Nations people come to Canada and Alberta?
When did they come to Alberta?
Where did they come from?
How long did they live here before European settlers arrived?
How many First Nations are in Alberta?
How do we learn about their history?
Did they have wars with European settlers in Alberta?
Did the different nations trade between each other? Did they trade with Europeans? What did they trade?
What are the reserves?
Life in Alberta
What natural resources did they use?
What did they use for medicine?
How did they survive the winter?
What simple machines did they use?
Did all tribes live in one place, or did they move around?
What were their means of transportation?
Did they have money? What kind of currency did they have?
How did they make clothes?
Family and children
Did they have schools? How did the children learn? What did they learn?
Did the children from different tribes learn together?
Could the children have friends in other tribes?
Traditions
What are their traditions?
Did they have writing?
How did they record their history?
What holidays do they celebrate?
What languages did they speak? Did they speak English?
How did they choose their names? Names of the tribes?
Tribes
What are the tribes? How did they form?
How many people are in the tribe?
Did every different tribe speak a different language?
Were there wars between the tribes? Were there conflicts within the same tribe?
Did tribes have alliances?
Could one chief lead 2 different tribes?
Were there physical borders between the tribes? Did all the tribes are a land of a similar size?
Social Structure
Why do they need chiefs? What does it mean to be a chief?
How do they select a chief? Was there an age requirement?
How do they choose elders? What does it mean to be an elder?
Do they have rules? How are the rules made?
How people in tribes agree on important decisions?
Who decides where to hunt, when to hunt?
Did you get punished if you did something wrong, if they disobeyed the rules? What were the punishments?
Did people in the tribe have assigned jobs?