With Elder Glen Anaquod and students from Kitchener School

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Saulteaux Tipi Raising

A) Watch and listenB) WatchC) ListenD) Talk to your friends

What does Elder Glen Anaquod say is important when learning to put up a tipi?

Watch and ListenHow 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.

Correct Answer (A)

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.

Biography Break – Glen Anaquod

A) a young oneB) The womanC) The manD) Everyone

In Glen’s area, who did the tipi belong to in the family?

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.

Correct Answer (B)

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.

What other roles did Aboriginal women play traditionally?

A) To share teachings with the young onesB) To instill pride in the young onesC) To teach the young ones about the tipi so

that they will have that knowledge when they get older

D) All of the above

What does Glen see as his role as an elder?

D) All of the Above

On the right: Glen Anaquod

teaches the students where

the the tipi poles are to be

placed.

Correct Answer

To pray for othersTo participate in and facilitate ceremoniesGive us adviceTeach us about the old waysGrandmothers and grandfathers

What other roles do elders have?

A) AbidingB) AdaptableC) AlikeD) None of the above

Glen says that Aboriginal people traditionally were very what…

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.

Correct Answer (B)

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.

What else did Mother Nature provide for Aboriginal peoples?

A) You couldn’t walk out with a lit smoke or food

B) You couldn’t bring children outC) You couldn’t bring elders outD) You had to have some food

What was the protocol of Glen’s people when it came to leaving the tipi?

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.

Correct Answer (A)

Did you know that the main First Nations groups in Saskatchewan include the:

Cree peopleSaulteaux peopleNakota (Assiniboine) peopleLakota peopleDakota peopleand Dene people

Did you know?

What are two new things you learned today?