Native Culture Prior To Contact With Europeans

Part I of Essay
The Aboriginal people of Canada are believed to have came here by means of walking. There are two main theories of the way they arrived here; the theory believed by anthropologists and archeologists is that the Aboriginals migrated from Asia and into Alaska and then down ....

Part II of Essay
.... of the Pacific coast and mountains, the Plains Indians, those of the St. Lawrence Valley, and finally a large group known as the Indians of the Northeast Woodlands. The Northern tribes of the Woodland Indians, west of the Hudson Bay, spoke Athabaskan tongue. However the main group is termed Algonquins of the Ottawa -- St. Lawrence region, Micmac of the Maritimes, Montagnais of Québec and Cree and Ojibwa of Northern Ontario and Manitoba. They were above all, nomad hunters, moving over their tribal hunting grounds in search of animals th ....