INFORMATION CARDS CANADA'S ABORIGINAL PEOPLES The ...

11) TUSCARORA - H, G, FM
INFORMATION:
• Canada’s most fertile region
• lush, rolling land, rivers, streams
• forests in the north
• temperate, growing season is 140 days, therefore time to plant and cultivate
crops of corn, beans, squash
• animal resources used are deer, beaver, bear
6. MACKENZIE / YUKON RIVER BASIN {SUBARCTIC}
(Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
Principal Groups:
1) CHIPEWEYAN - H - inhabited the largest amount of territory, area from northern
Churchill River to Great Slave Lake
2) BEAVER - H - south and west of Chipeweyan, in Peace River basin
3) SLAVE (SLAVEYS) - H - between Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River
4) YELLOWKNIFE - H - lakelands from east of Great Slave Lake to east shore of
Great Bear Lake
5) DOGRIB - H - southwest of the Yellowknife, land between the two Great lakes
6) KUTCHIN - H, F - basins of the Pelly and Porcupine Rivers, interior Yukon
7) HAN - H - southern Yukon
8) TUTCHONE - H - southern Yukon
9) SEKANI - H - eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, northern Alberta
INFORMATION:
• very harsh way of life
• dark forests, barren land, swampy terrain (muskeg)
• long, severe winters
• animal resouces used are migratory animals, caribou, moose