Transcript Review of Key Ideas

Peopling the Americas
Creation
Stories
Archaeology
Linguistics
Physical
Anthropology &
Geology
Theories of First
People’s Origins
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
sources
Back to Game Board
All of Canada’s First Peoples share a
common world view about their nation’s
relationship with this?
Back to Game Board
The environment. They all have
references to animals and features in
our landscape.
Back to Game Board
These are the three theories of First
Peoples’ origins?
1. A land route
2. Pacific route
3. Atlantic route
Back to Game Board
Physical Anthropologists study past
societies by analyzing these?
Human remains
Back to Game Board
When analyzing artifacts through the
process of radio-carbon dating
researchers often use the reference
BP.
What does this stand for?
Before the Present
Back to Game Board
Antaentsic is central to this First Nations’ creation story?
The Six Nations Confederacy
Back to Game
September 10,1939
Back to Game
Many of Canada’s First Nations believe
they have been here since?
Time Immemorial
Back to Game
The model which refers to the spear
projectile found in 1935?
The Clovis Model
Back to Game
This is the inclination to accept without
question a set of related assumptions
and values?
This is known as a paradigm bias
Back to Game
The Debert site in Nova Scotia has
been designated a special place. What
act is it protected by?
The Special Places Protection Act
Back to Game
He was the focus of a highly
controversial case involving
Anthropologists and a coalition of five
Aboriginal groups?
Kennewick Man
Back to Game
Image source :http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news136.htm Kennewick Man Debate Heats Up The Japan Times 1999
According to some linguists it may
have taken this amount of time for the
language diversity that exists in the
Americas to have evolved and
developed the way it exists today?
Approximately 50 000 years
Back to Game
What are linguists
concerned with?
Issues related to language structure,
development and usage.
Back to Game
Approximately how many languages
are spoken in Canada?
Over 90 different
languages are spoken
in Canada. The two
official languages
are French and
English.
Back to Game
The land link which was believed to join
Siberia to Alaska?
Beringia
Back to Game
These people believe that Kji-Kinap
created their world and gave life to a
stone that became a man?
The Mi’kmaq
Back to Game
Many linguists believe the First Peoples
must have arrived here long before this
era?
The Clovis Era
Back to Game
The Eskaleut language family is the only
Aboriginal language currently spoken in
the Americas that can be linked
conclusively to these two continents?
Asia and Europe
Back to Game
Many Physical Anthropologists believe
there were ________ ________ of
people to the Americas.
Separate migrations
Back to Game
The physical evidence and artifacts
that have been discovered suggest
people have been in the Americas for
this many years?
11 000 years
Back to Game
These two sites are believed to be older
than any known North American sites?
Monte Verde & Tiama - Tiama
Back to Game
Anthropologists have found similarities
in the bone structure of early
inhabitants from the Americas with
people from these places?
Europeans and the Ainu of Japan
Back to Game
The Mi’kmaq language is a dialect (part) of
this language family?
The Algonquian language
Back to Game
The Six Nations Confederacy
Back to Game
This site produced artifacts
that may date to 16000 years
BP?
Cactus Hill
Back to Game
Geologists believe this may have
existed near the Rocky Mountains
allowing people to migrate southward
into the more temperate conditions?
An ice-free corridor
Back to Game
Approximately how many
languages are spoken in
Canada?
Land Mines
The Ottawa Accord – International Ban on
Landmines
Back to Game
Recent mapping and satellite imagery
analyzed by Canadian Geologists suggest
that this was an unlikely phenomena until
approximately 13000 years BP?
An ice-free corridor
Back to Game
Sources
Longhouse Image : Six Nations Confederacy
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/ (09/15/04)
Western Canada language map : Languages of Canada
Ethnologue.com (09/15/04)
Questions by: B. Wishart (09/15/04)
Created by: B. Khan (09/16/04)
Back to Game