HISB40H3 Lecture : b____
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Origins and culture groups: creation stories vs bering land bridge, northwest coast, plateau and plains, sub-arctic and arctic, northeast. Migration theory sea levels were low enough to cross from russia to alaska. There were 10 million people in the americas in 1500 a. d. (500k in canada) Northeast coast: halda, tsimshian, nootka (tribal names) Old area": moderate climate, plentiful resources, dense population (mostly densely populated in what is now canada, sedentary lifestyle, hierarchy. Plateau and plains: salish, blackfoot, cree (nomadic, hot dry climate, cold winter, nomadic (they moved from place to place) www. notesolution. com, heavy reliance on salmon on plateau, the buffalo on plains, sundance (cultural event[fasted for 1 week]) Sub-arctic: dene, sub-arctic algonquians, forested (below tree lines) Long, very cold winters snow: nomadic, very low population density. Inuit: extreme, extreme cold climate, reliance on caribou, sea mammals. Northeast: moderate climate, heavy forest, cold, snowy winters, moose, deer, beaver, agriculture, two major groups algonquians and iroquoian.
