Canada's First Nations
We are learning about the topic of First Nations. Please check out some of the sites below. They will help provide some valuable details regarding this topic of study.
Canada's First Peoples
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/index.html
Canadian Atlas: First Nations Peoples
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/themes.aspx?id=first&sub=first_cultures_woodlands&lang=En
University of Calgary: Canad's First Nations
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/
Aboriginal Canada Portal
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao04577.html
Links to Learning
http://www.linktolearning.com/grade6ss.htm
Canada's First Peoples
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/index.html
Canadian Atlas: First Nations Peoples
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/themes.aspx?id=first&sub=first_cultures_woodlands&lang=En
University of Calgary: Canad's First Nations
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/
Aboriginal Canada Portal
http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao04577.html
Links to Learning
http://www.linktolearning.com/grade6ss.htm
First Nations and European Contact
1. Brief history of the fur trade
http://www.canadiana.ca/hbc/hist/hist1_e.htmlhttp://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/economic-activities/fur-trade/
2. History of the Fur Trade Conflicts between the Northwest Compay and the Hudson's Bay Company
http://www.canadiana.ca/hbc/stories/nwco1_e.html
3. How Fur Trading Worked
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?subclassName=CloseUp&pageID=249
4. The destructive aspects of trade
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?subclassName=CloseUp&pageID=248
5. How the First Nations helped the Europeans with resources and materials
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?pageID=239
6. What the Europeans offered the First Nations
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?pageID=247
7. About Samuel De Champlain
http://www.canadiana.ca/hbc/person/champlain_e.html
http://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/samuel-de-champlain-1604-1616/
8. The destruction of First Nations cultures from exposure to European diseases
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?subclassName=CloseUp&pageID=237
9. The destruction of Huronia
http://www.histori.ca/champlain/page.do?subclassName=CloseUp&pageID=238
10. Jacques Cartier
http://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jacques-cartier-1534-1542/
11. Fur Trade history and its effects
http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_furtrade/fp_furtrade1.htmlhttp://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1500/1500-13-effects-fur-trade.html
12. European contact with First Nations groups across Canada
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/gulf.html