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Population and settlementThe Amerinds , the appearance and settlement of the French in North America

+Migrations

The early migration to permanent occupation of the territory

30,000 BC 25,000 years ago migrated across Bering Strait from Asia

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/fp/fpz2f11e.shtml

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/theories.html

http://instaar.colorado.edu/QGISL/bering_land_bridge/

+slowly moved south to inhabit all of North and South America

+Occupation of territory

There are three language families in Quebec in 1500, the Iroquois, Algonquian and Inuit. Estimate numbers between 18.000 and 35.000.

The Algonquian are the most numerous, between 12.000 and 20.000

http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical/aboriginalpeoples/circa1630

https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=215266017422325638107.0004addc6dbe7f8846a35&msa=0

Gradual occupation of the territory starting from the southern Quebec

+Identification of groups according to language

Iroquoian languages include Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Erie, Neutral, Tobacco, and Huron.

Cree, Odawa, Innu (Montagnais), Innu (Naskapi), Micmac, Maliseet was spoken in the Algonquian linguistic group.

+Algonquin ----Algonquian

Lifestyle :Nomads in the Canadian Shield and the Appalachians

Home :Wigwam tents covered with animal skins, wigwams, teepees (easy moved from one place to another)

Summer camp near a river ,winter camp in the interior

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Patriarchal lineage : The married woman living in her husband's family- patriarchy

Organization : The Nuclear family - Fighter Group-Band

Activities : Hunting, Fishing Gathering

Transportation :snow shoes, canoes, dog sleds

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/native-people-eastern-woodlands

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firstnations/civilisations.html

+Iroquoian

Lifestyle: Semi –sedentary in the Great Lakes – St Lawrence River Valley

Home : Longhouses-Villages with palisades near a fertile soil and a river

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Matriarchal lineage : The married man lives in his wife's family

Organization : The clan -the village – the nation -the Confederacy

Activities : farming , hunting, gathering

Transportation :snow shoes, canoes, dog sleds

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/iroquoiens-iroquoians/

+Inuit

Nomads : In the Arctic Home : Skin tent for summer- igloo in winter Patriarchal lineage Organisation - nuclear family -fighter group -

regional band Activities : hunting, gathering Transportation : kayaks- sleds

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