Social Studies - The Wendat People

Dear Students and Parents,

I wanted to share a hint about an exciting upcoming lesson we will be having this week. This Thursday October 18th, we will be exploring the Wendat tribe, as a part of our Social Studies unit on Heritage and Citizenship. The lesson will be interactive and will include music, stories, artifacts and videos.

Students bring your thinking caps and creative minds! Also, please make sure you bring your chart on Aboriginal tribes that we have been working on in class.

*Before our lesson check out this site:

http://www.innisfil.library.on.ca/natives/natives/chp2.htm

Please complete the following:
- Come to class with three interesting facts.
- What do the pictures tell you?

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Parents, be sure to ask your child about what they learned about the Wendat tribe!

UNIT - Heritage and Citizenship: Grade 6 – First Nation Peoples and European Explorers

Curriculum Expectation: 
Overall: 
- Describe characteristics of pre-contact First Nations cultures across Canada including their close relationships with the natural environment; the motivations and attitudes of the European explorers; and the effects of contact on both the receiving and the incoming groups;
 
Specific:
- Describe the attitude to the environment of various First Nations groups and show how it affected their practices in daily life (with respect to food, shelter, clothes, transportation)

By examining the given website, students will come to class with an idea of who the Wendat people were. It is important for students to understand the Wendat culture, to be able to understand the impact that other tribes and European settlers had on their way of life. Aspects of food, shelter, clothing and transportation are all significant ways of life that were naturally altered based on seasons and availability of resources. However, these natural ways were significantly altered with the introduction of conflict and change within the Wendat community.

Image: Sioui, E. G. Huron Wendat Turtle (2000). Retrieved from: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=the+wendat&view=detail&id=C172560F23D46086B2113F923A5C475CC61883BB&FORM=IDFRIR