With Elder Glen Anaquod and students from Kitchener School AboriginalPerspectives.uregina.ca

A) Watch and listen B) Watch C) Listen D) Talk to your friends

Watch and Listen How can we show someone that we are listening to them? How can we show someone that we are watching them? We always show respect to our elders.

Glen is from the Muscowpetung reserve in Saskatchewan. He is the cultural advisor at the University of Regina’s Aboriginal Student Centre. The grandmothers in Glen’s community taught him the ways of putting up a tipi and the traditions around the tipi.

A) a young one B) The woman C) The man D) Everyone

The tipi belonged to the woman. The reason it belonged to the woman is because it assured that the children would always have a place to sleep if the man and woman were to split ways.

They helped prepare meals and capture small game and fish. They tanned the hide for tipis and created other pieces of clothing from buffalo hide. They were always seen as equal and had a say when it came to politics.

A) To share teachings with the young ones B) To instill pride in the young ones C) To teach the young ones about the tipi so that they will have that knowledge when they get older D) All of the above

D) All of the Above On the right: Glen Anaquod teaches the students where the the tipi poles are to be placed.

To pray for others To participate in and facilitate ceremonies Give us advice Teach us about the old ways Grandmothers and grandfathers

A) Abiding B) Adaptable C) Alike D) None of the above

Traditionally Aboriginal people were very adaptable. This means that they used whatever they had and worked with whatever they had. Aboriginal people didn’t have a Wal-Mart or Zellers to go to when they needed something. They used what they could from Mother Nature and thanked her for the gifts she provided.

The buffalo that roamed the prairies on Mother Earth provided food, clothing and weapons. The berries that grew on bushes were used to keep people healthy and used as an ingredient in pemmican. She provided different medicines from the plants growing on her ground.

A) You couldn’t walk out with a lit smoke or food B) You couldn’t bring children out C) You couldn’t bring elders out D) You had to have some food

The Saulteaux people enforce the tradition that nobody may leave the tipi if they have a lit cigarette or have food. What sometimes makes First Nations cultures a complex one is that each tribe of people has their own protocol. Before entering a ceremony such as a feast or a sweat lodge it is important to ask an elder the proper protocol for doing so.

Did you know that the main First Nations groups in Saskatchewan include the: Cree people Saulteaux people Nakota (Assiniboine) people Lakota people Dakota people and Dene people