AN201 Lecture Notes - Eastern Canada, Patrilineality, Fish Hooks
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Region: lower great lakes, huron, eerie, ontario, st. lawrence valley, new york, southern ontario, hudson"s bay, mixed forests, deciduous/coniferous, berry bushes, sugar maple, herbs, mid-temperate climate. Wildlife: fauna, white tailed deer, black bear, fur bearers, beaver, mink, muskrat, birds, partridge, wild turkey, fish, whitefish, trout, pike, pickerel. Subsistence: mixed horticulture/fishing/hunting/gathering, food, corn, beans, squash. Supporters of life: hunting, fall through winter, fishing (huron, extensive fishing technology. 6 nations tribe used elm wood: religious year focused on planting and harvesting. Settlements: villages and towns had up to 2000 people, semi-permanent, 10-12 year cycle. Bear, turtle, wolf, snipe, beaver, ball, hawk, deer, eel, heron: tribes. Mohawk, oneida, huron, seneca, cayuga: kinship, bifurcate divides into two branches. Buried on pathways where women walk and under house floors. Clans: a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent, matrilineal, totemic, exogamous (marry outside of clan or family, clan segments village lineages, property control.
