1. Early Aboriginal Settlements in present day St. Clements
The First Inhabitants
Early Aboriginal Settlements in present day
St. Clements

2. Before Anyone Lived Here
For thousands of years, the land was covered with sheets of ice up to four kilometres thick.
When the climate changed and the ice melted, a huge lake formed. We call it Lake Agassiz. The area around Winnipeg was 200 m below water
Evidence of this lake exists today in ridges and ancient shore lines; paths along which early inhabitants travelled.
The rich, fertile soil of the area was deposited at the bottom of Lake Agassiz.

3. Early Life
These drawings are about life long ago around present day Lockport. What are you able to learn from these images? What are you using as evidence? Discuss with your partners or classmates and be prepared to share your ideas.

4. Early First Inhabitants Why in St. Clements?
People first settled here about 3000 years ago.
The rapids at Lockport allowed people to get stone for tools.
Buffalo (plains bison) crossed the river here.
Fish were plentiful.
Corn could be grown here.

5. How do we know about life in the past?
Archeological evidence:
When people have lived in an area for a long time, objects from that time can be found. By examining these artifacts, archeologists come up with ideas about how people lived. Read the section about tools. What made archeologists think that these people may have farmed?
Tools of the Laurel People

6. Make your own Archaeological Dig

7. The Bison Study the painting in the next slide.
What are you able to learn from this picture?
What do you know about the people? Their technology? When this was painted?

9. http://commons. wikimedia
This is the link for the picture

10. The Bison When hunted, every part possible was used.
Meat was preserved for use later on.
Learn more about the Bison by reading how the Plains people used it and preserved the bison meat.
Why do you think it was important to preserve it?

11. More than Popcorn Corn had many uses:
Used in a stew with meat
Made into a dish with beans and salt
Made into a bread (ground up to make a flour)
Dried in the sand, known as popcorn
It was thought that squash was also been grown here.

12. The Earliest Farmers
Drawing of a Storage Pit for Corn

13. Cooler Climate In the 1400’s the climate became colder in Manitoba.
The summers were too short and cool to grow crops.
How do you think this changed their lives?
Fishing and hunting became difficult.
The farmers left the area.