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Peopling the Americas
Creation
Stories
Archaeology
Linguistics
Physical
Anthropology &
Geology
Theories of First
People’s Origins
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All of Canada’s First Peoples share a
common world view about their nation’s
relationship with this?
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The environment. They all have
references to animals and features in
our landscape.
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These are the three theories of First
Peoples’ origins?
1. A land route
2. Pacific route
3. Atlantic route
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Physical Anthropologists study past
societies by analyzing these?
Human remains
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When analyzing artifacts through the
process of radio-carbon dating
researchers often use the reference
BP.
What does this stand for?
Before the Present
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Antaentsic is central to this First Nations’ creation story?
The Six Nations Confederacy
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September 10,1939
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Many of Canada’s First Nations believe
they have been here since?
Time Immemorial
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The model which refers to the spear
projectile found in 1935?
The Clovis Model
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This is the inclination to accept without
question a set of related assumptions
and values?
This is known as a paradigm bias
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The Debert site in Nova Scotia has
been designated a special place. What
act is it protected by?
The Special Places Protection Act
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He was the focus of a highly
controversial case involving
Anthropologists and a coalition of five
Aboriginal groups?
Kennewick Man
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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
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What are linguists
concerned with?
Issues related to language structure,
development and usage.
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Approximately how many languages
are spoken in Canada?
Over 90 different
languages are spoken
in Canada. The two
official languages
are French and
English.
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The land link which was believed to join
Siberia to Alaska?
Beringia
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These people believe that Kji-Kinap
created their world and gave life to a
stone that became a man?
The Mi’kmaq
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Many linguists believe the First Peoples
must have arrived here long before this
era?
The Clovis Era
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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
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Many Physical Anthropologists believe
there were ________ ________ of
people to the Americas.
Separate migrations
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The physical evidence and artifacts
that have been discovered suggest
people have been in the Americas for
this many years?
11 000 years
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These two sites are believed to be older
than any known North American sites?
Monte Verde & Tiama - Tiama
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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
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The Mi’kmaq language is a dialect (part) of
this language family?
The Algonquian language
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The Six Nations Confederacy
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This site produced artifacts
that may date to 16000 years
BP?
Cactus Hill
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Geologists believe this may have
existed near the Rocky Mountains
allowing people to migrate southward
into the more temperate conditions?
An ice-free corridor
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Approximately how many
languages are spoken in
Canada?
Land Mines
The Ottawa Accord – International Ban on
Landmines
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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
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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)
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