Cub Den Meeting - February 11, 2015

    DATE: February 11, 2015

TIME	ACTIVITY	EQUIPMENT NEEDED	BADGE REQUIRMENTS MET
3:45	Gathering Activity:
4:00	Opening Ceremony      - Flag Ceremony      - Opening Prayer: _____________      - Grand Howl      -Attendance: ________________
4:05	GAME:
4:15
4:20	THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Inventions	• Matching Game • • •	Aboriginal Awareness #1
4:40	GAME:
5:00	THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal contributions to Canada	• • •	Aboriginal Awareness #6
5:10	BADGEWORK: Aboriginal words we use today		Aboriginal Awareness #2
5:15	SPIRITUAL FELLOWSHIP      -Spiritual Thought: ____________
5:20	Closing Ceremony      -Cub Promise (review line 2)      -Closing Prayer      - Flag Lowering Ceremony      -Badge worksheets or other information
5:30	Goodnight and Good hunting

THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Inventions

MATCHING GAME: Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions

Print the matching game from the following link: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr2/blms/2-2-1c.pdf

THEME ACTIVITY: Aboriginal Contributions

Fur Traders

Shortly after Europeans began sailing to Canada to explore and to fish, they found out that Canada was a land with many fur-bearing animals.  When explorers and fishers began trading with Aboriginal Peoples for fresh food, they learned that the Aboriginal Peoples had furs from the animals they hunted.  The fur trade in Canada began because many Europeans wanted these furs.  Both the French and the English used furs, especially beaver fur, to make hats and to trim other clothing.  They became partners in the fur trade with the Aboriginal Peoples.

The Aboriginal Peoples of eastern Canada were the first to meet explorers and traders from Europe.  The explorers returned to Europe with stories about the new people and lands they had seen.  They brought back new food that Europeans had never eaten before.  Corn, beans, squash, and tobacco were plants from North America.  The Aboriginal Peoples acted as guides for the explorers.  They taught the Europeans what they knew about the land.  They showed them how to use canoes, moccasins, snowshoes, and toboggans.

Traders came to get furs from the new lands.  They built trading posts where Aboriginal Peoples could bring their furs.  When the fur trade began, it fit well into Aboriginal ways of life.  The Aboriginal Peoples had always hunted and traded for what they needed.  The fur trade brought them metal tools and weapons that replaced those of stone and bone.  Iron cooking pots and copper kettles replaced those made of clay, skin, bark, or wood.  Guns replaced bows and arrows.  Hunting for food became quicker and easier.

Aboriginal women played an important role in the fur trade.  Without their skills and hard work, the fur trade would not have been possible.  Many of the fur traders married Aboriginal women.  These women did a lot of the work at the posts. Aboriginal women often went on fur-trading trips with their husbands.  Many acted as guides.  They worked with the men to paddle the canoes and carried heavy loads across portages.  They set up camp when they stopped, and prepared meals. Aboriginal women had many skills important to the fur traders.  They prepared food such as pemmican.  Pemmican is light to carry and keeps a long time without spoiling.  Aboriginal women also knew how to make medicines from plants. Women made or helped make many items of value.  They made blankets and clothing, including moccasins.  They helped make snowshoes.  The men made the frames of snowshoes and the women made the webbing for them.   They gathered and split spruce roots used to make birch bark canoes.  They also collected spruce gum, which was used to make the canoes waterproof. Sometimes Aboriginal women trapped smaller animals for meat and fur.  The women were skilled at cleaning and preparing pelts and hides. The fur traders learned many skills from their Aboriginal wives.  They learned the languages and customs of their wives’ people.  If a woman from an Aboriginal group married a trader, she often acted as an interpreter and peacemaker among her people and the traders.  The women helped their husbands communicate with Aboriginal Peoples.  This improved their trading relationships.

BADGEWORK: Aboriginal Words

Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca Falls, Mount Athabasca, Athabasca: "Where there are reeds" in Cree

Kananaskis

Medicine Hat: Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine man".

Lake Minnewanka: ""Water of the Spirits" in Sioux (Nakoda/Stoney language)

Nikanassin Range: "First range" in Cree

Okotoks: "Big Rock" in Blackfoot

Ponoka: "Black Elk" in Cree

Wabasca: from wapuskau, "grassy narrows" in Cree language

Wetaskiwin: "Place of peace" or "hill of peace" in Cree

Wapiti River: from the Cree word for "elk", waapiti (literally "white rump").

Waputik Range: Waputik means "white goat" in Stoney