A short note to students: You're all good kids! (Don't let that go to your heads though.) Be sure to keep on top of assignments and due-dates, continue to focus in class, come in early for extra help or extra time with the textbook if you need it, keep track of your to-dos in your agenda and visit the blog once a day, participate in class discussions, and don't procrastinate. Keep up the good work, June will be here before you know it. Oh, and wear a helmet on your bike or skateboard... and stay away from drugs and alcohol... and look both ways before crossing the street... and don't play with matches... and for heaven's sake, be nice to your parents!
As well: Family Day Monday is called Louis Riel Day in Manitoba. Get bonus points for telling us why...
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did you get the definition of sustainable development from this website:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Examples-of-Sustainable-Development&id=3865141
Mr. Wanie,
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to ask this but I'm really stuck:
What were the the First Nations means of subsistence? Also, is there a difference between the Scottish and the Scottish fur traders???
Thanks!
Katie
Leya: No, but, as stated in the article you linked to, the definition for sustainable development comes from the Bruntland Commission's 1987 coining of the term. It's the most widely accepted definition...
Katie: The First Nations hunted bison and trapped animals for their meat and fur and fished the rivers to provide themselves food and clothing. The Scottish fur traders survived on pemmican they traded for as they travelled back and forth from Montreal to the West. Scottish settlers farmed when they were able. When they weren't, due to poor crops and/or miserable weather, they often relied on the food they were able to barter for from the Metis and First Nations people.
hey mr.wanie i forgot that for the cover page you were supposed to do the bison HUNT exactly so instead i just put they bison moving in a herd. i really hope it's ok.
thanks Najat 8/7
Najat: Sounds fine.
thanks so much
Family day in Manitoba is called Louis Riel day because there was a long time between New Year's Day and Good Friday when there were no holidays. A contest got held among school children to name the day and the winning name was 'Louis Riel Day' after the Manitoba politician. The date doesn't really have anything to do with Louis Riel.
Lilly: Correct, however, the reason the people of Manitoba would want to remember him is because he is considered the founder of Manitoba, having laid the framework for cultural cooperation and minority rights. In the mid to late 1800s, he advocated for the justice of the Metis people.
hey mr.wanie I've been reading my french book and the same word keeps on coming up and I've looked it up but it won't give me a translation so i was wondering if u knew what "moulettes" means in english. And example of where it was in the book is "La péche aux moulettes" or "C'est du ragoût de moulettes".
Thanks Najat 8/7
Is it okay if I put a random First Nations person's head in my bison hunt picture? I was wondering what the Metis people looked like so I figured it would still look like a First Nations guy. (I don't know what the proper term is, but you know the cool guys that sometimes wear feathers?" I say this because "Aboriginal" isn't proper because they are actually the original ones in Canada, not the not-original ones, and people should all know and respect that! Of course "Indian" is the disrespectful racist term so that's definitely not it. "First Nations person" doesn't sound right either however, so I'm stuck.
Thanks!
Isabelle
And yes, I am one sixteenth Native (wait maybe that's it! Native! Okay), no need to question...
And that's also why "Autochtone" is slightly disrespectful, but do people listen to these kind of things???
isabelle ur so amusing.
no actually there was no sarcasm intended.
Najat: Moulettes are small shellfish... similar to mussels or clams.
Isabelle: Be careful about the feathers, they have very important and very different meanings... Check this link: http://www.michifmetismuseum.org/WhoaretheMetis.html
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