Canada's First People

2. inherited social standing
6. hunters and artists
8. a ceremonial festival held by First Nations
10. the head or leader of the First Nations people
11. legendary peacemaker
12. light narrow boat propelled with a paddle
13. most powerful group of First Nations in North America
14. a right of passage into adulthood
16. the act of making stable or putting on a permanent basis
19. to take in and incorporate as one's own
21. First Nations have this kind of right to govern themselves
22. fallen in debt and lost their social status
23. a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable you to walk on deep snow without sinking
26. people who remember the stories passed down from generation to generation
27. a huge grassy plain between Siberia and Alaska
28. a spirit who is known as the Godess of the sea

1. nunavut means this word in the language of Inuktitut
2. Canada's largest Territory
3. of or pertaining to Europe or its habitants
4. a frame slung between trailing poles and pulled by a dog or horse used by Great Plain
5. objects left behind from earlier times
7. corn, beans and squash
9. food that was dried and preserved
15. a form of government made by Dekanahwideh
17. talks that aboriginals entered in order to achieve certain goals
18. semi-nomadic people of the arctic
20. a way to tell stories about a person's family or clans
24. an agreement in British Columbia in 1998
25. newcomers brought this to the people who had never encountered it before
27. The Great Plains most important resource