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All Our Relationships

Grade 5
Social Studies
Heritage and Identity

Description

In this activity, students explore the relationship between Europeans and Indigenous people in the early colonial period. Students analyze the data from the perspective of each group. Next, students draw conclusions about the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and colonizers.

Learning goals

I describe the relationship between early Indigenous peoples and Europeans from their respective points of view.
I draw conclusions about the relationship between First Peoples and colonizers.

Vocabulary

consequences
first contact
first contact
colonizers
colonization
economic system
describe
draw conclusions
exploration
explorers
perspective
First Peoples
First Nations
Métis
Indigenous Peoples
Europeans
Inuit
period newspaper

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