1. Economies in History Chapter 2

2. First Nations and Inuit Economies

3. Introduction Silently read title and Inquiry focus question on page 24

4. Economies in History Inquiry Focus: What economic changes occurred when Europeans came to North America?

5. In the Next Three Lessons We will be: Examining traditional First Nations and Inuit economies Finding out why Europeans came to North America and what kind of economies the European settlers wanted to build Examining how traditional economies changed because of the arrival of the Europeans

6. Throughout time… Every society has had some sort of economic system – bartering, trading, buying, selling. The main purpose of an economic system answers these questions: 1.What goods and services do people need and want? 2.How can we produce these goods and services? 3.How will we distribute them?

7. Definitions Goods – those things we purchase Services – things we pay people to do for us Produce – how we make them Distribute – how will we get them to people

8. How Does The Following Chart Answer these questions: 1.What goods and services do people need and want? 2.How can we produce these goods and services? 3.How will we distribute them?

9. Technologies Economists categorize economies by whether or not manufacturing technologies are used to produce goods for sale Industrial economies use this type of technology The first industrial economies started in Europe in the late 1700’s

10. 2000 1900 1800 1700 – Farming, ranching, fishing and some lumber operations 1600 – Hunting, gathering and some farming Development of industry Computer and Communications technologies Industrial Revolution

11. Pre- Industrial IndustrialPost- Industrial Needs and Wants Food and handmade goods Manufactured goods and natural resources Information services and manufactured goods Production Family farms or hunting groups Simple tools operated by human, wind, water or animal power Big factories Mechanical tools such as steam and gas engines Big and small companies Computers and the Internet Distribution Sharing, trading or buying and selling Mostly buying and selling Monthly buying and selling

12. First Nations and Inuit Economies First Nations and Inuit have been in North America since time immemorial – for as long as anyone can remember in all the stories passed on by the elders Each society had its own political, economic and cultural systems

13. Aboriginal Peoples Aboriginal means “living in a land from earliest times” in other words, the First People of a Region There are 3 groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada today – Inuit, First Nations and Métis

14. Inuit Are the 1 st peoples of the region north of the tree line in parts of what are now Quebec and Labrador Quebec Inuit and Labrador Inuit are two examples

15. First Nations The First Peoples of the rest of the land that is now Canada Many forst Nations including the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Innu, all from the Atlantic region

16. Métis First Métis were children of either Inuit or First Nations women and European traders Métis today are descendants of these people

17. First Nations No longer respectful to refer to them as Indians Term thought to have been first used when explorers thought they had found the Far East or India First Nations has been used since 1970

18. Needs and Wants First Nations and Inuit first depended on the land and natural resources for survival Economy of each nation was based on the natural resources available in that region

19. Inuit Ex. Inuit built homes of snow as trees did not grow there; sometimes sod or whale bones and stone was used. In summer they made tupet or tents with bones, antlers and hides of seal or caribou Labrador Inuit could often get wood and sometimes made their tupet from wood

20. Look at the following map which shows First Nations and Inuit economies at the Time of Contact

22. Production

24. A Part of Nature

25. Distribution

26. No One Owned the Land

27. Assignment