1. Aboriginal Culture & Language

2. What is Culture?
Culture is defined as a people’s shared beliefs, values, practices, and traditions, or a way of thinking and acting.
“a way of life”
Culture can include language, knowledge and beliefs, laws and moral values, customs and traditions, art and music.

3. What is language?
Is a systematic way of relating meaning with the sounds made by the human voice.
Language can assign meaning to anything is existence or anything the human mind can consider..for example “Bootylicious” is a term now understood by many people and is even in the dictionary, but up until several years ago the combination of these sounds had no meaning.
A society or group must agree that certain sounds correspond to certain meanings in order for language to make sense and develop.

4. Assignment Copy the following chart Languages Regional Base
Language included in Family
Eskimo-
Aleut
Across arctic – Aleutian Islands of Alaska – Labrador and Greenland
Inuktitut, Denne
Athabaskan
North West Territories and Northern part or the Prairies
South-western US
Beaver and Chipewyan
Navaho and Apache
Siouan
Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Dakota, Lakoda
Iroquoian
Southern Ontario, and Quebec and New York
Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Huron, Tuscarora
Algonquian
Atlantic Coast from Labrador to the Carolinas across Quebec Ontario and the Prairie Provinces
Beothuk, Cree, Objibwa, Potawatomi, Blackfoot, and Montagnais.
Mi’kmaq and Maliseet

5. Map Instructions Using your text:
Shade in these 5 regions in different colours on the map provided.
Label all Provinces and Territories and capital cities.
Don’t forget to provide a legend.