‘Aboriginal Economies’:
Chapter Seven
Voices & Visions
Pre Contact: Before Europeans arrived in North America.
Contact: Europeans meet aboriginals as they search for a western route to Asia.
Questions:
1. (a) List the crops which had their origins in the Americas
(b) Explain what the relationship between these crops and world population.
2. What were the differences between aboriginal and European agricultural practices?
3. Discuss the Haudenosunee (Iroquois) agricultural practice of the “Three Sisters”.
4. Describe two pharmaceutical practices used by the first people.
5. Why was trade important for aboriginal peoples?
6. (a) What evidence do we have to suggest there were established trade routes among First Nation peoples?
(b) What was the difference between European and aboriginal trading practices?
7. List four transportation technologies used by native peoples before contact.
8. What is the aboriginal perspective on sustainable development?
9. Describe two artic innovations.
10. What was the purpose of a Potlach.