Chapter 6 Lesson 4 Inquiry

Inquiry

Who were the first inhabitants of the Cordillera ?

1. Textbook
   
• Pages 164 – 166.
• Pages 336 – 337.             
  
  
2. Library Books
   
• The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples, pages 6 – 11
• The Cordillera, pages 14 – 15
  
  You may find these library books interesting: Storm Boy, Brother Eagle, or Sister Sky.
  
  
3. Websites
• Haida Fact Sheet
  Note that this site calls the Haida ‘Native Americans’.  That is because the Haida lived in what is now the United States as well as in Canada.)
• The Canadian Encyclopedia:  Potlach
• Canadian Museum of History: Haida
• Northwest Coast People Lifestyles
• First Peoples of Canada
• The Kwakiutl People
• Five Facts of the: Kwakiutl Tribe
4. Videos
• Listen to the Haida language being spoken here.
• See how to build a canoe.
• Rick Mercer visits Haida Gwaii, the edge of the world..

Notebook

Click here to download, save to your Unit 6 Notebook, and complete the First Inhabitants of the Cordillera web with the information you gather from your inquiry. 

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