B2. Communities, Conflict, and Cooperation
Specific Expectations
B2.1
analyse historical statistics and other sources to identify populations, settlement patterns, and traditional territories of First Nations and Inuit societies at the time of contact in what would be called North America, with a particular focus on the territories that would become Canada (e.g., the geographic and/or linguistic groups prior to contact in territories in and bordering on what would become Canada; migration patterns of pre-Dorset and Thule peoples; overlapping territories; population estimates prior to sustained contact with Europeans), and explain their significance
- What were the migration routes of various Arctic peoples?
- Why did so many precontact First Nations live in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands? Why were populations sparser on the plains and in the North?
- How is the fact that First Nations have lived on their lands since time immemorial relevant to modern-day land claims?
- What means did First Nations and Inuit use to avoid and/or address conflict with each other over their hunting, gathering, and/or settlement regions? What protocols/practices were used to recognize First Nations’ traditional territories?
B2.2
analyse the key causes and consequences of the creation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (e.g., with reference to trade and the economy, community well-being, internal cooperation between member nations, external conflict with other nations, the role of The Peacemaker and Hiawatha)
- What do you think were the most significant short-term consequences of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
- What values and beliefs are expressed in the Great Law of Peace? What is their significance for the Six Nations? For other First Nations?