 | Term | Definition |
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Geology |
The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth. |
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Dispersal |
The act or process of spread out or the condition of being disperse |
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Culture |
The way a group of people live |
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Maize |
Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears |
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Culture area |
An area where people share many features of the same culture |
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Coniferous |
Trees that bear cone |
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Democracy |
Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representative |
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Wampum |
Used among the Iroquoians both as money and as a record of treaties |
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Mohawk |
A tribe in the Iroquois Confederacy |
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Nootka |
An Aboriginal tribe on the west coast |
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Potlach |
A feast at which the host gave away many gifts |
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Totem poles |
Built by west coast tribes to honor their family |
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Blackfoot |
The strongest Aboriginal nation on the Plains |
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Buffalo |
The most important source of food on the plains |
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HBC |
Hudson Bay Company |
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Travois |
Made of two crossed poles pulled behind a horse for carrying loads |
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Sun Dance |
A dance where the Plains Indian sought a vision to guide them for the rest of their lives |
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Subarctic |
A huge area of North America which spreads from Alaska in the west to the Maritimes in the East |
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Canoe |
They were used by the First Nations and later by the explorers and fur traders for travelling throughout Canada |
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Squash |
A field crop grown by the Huron First Nation |
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Igloo |
The Inuit word for snowhouse |
