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Huron

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Huron Canada's First Nations. By Laura Sherman

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Huron

Laura sherman

Food/ clothing

  • Did a lot of agriculture and farming, hunting and fishing.
  • Planted foods such as corn, squash, and beans
  • Women would collect berries in handmade baskets
  • Clothing was made out of animal hides and sewn by women
  • Used hides of bears and deer.
Photo by VinothChandar

Food/ clothing

  • Did a lot of agriculture and farming, hunting and fishing.
  • Planted foods such as corn, squash, and beans
  • Women would collect berries in handmade baskets
  • Clothing was made out of animal hides and sewn by women
  • Used hides of bears and deer.
Photo by VinothChandar

Food/ clothing

  • Did a lot of agriculture and farming, hunting and fishing.
  • Planted foods such as corn, squash, and beans
  • Women would collect berries in handmade baskets
  • Clothing was made out of animal hides and sewn by women
  • Used hides of bears and deer.
Photo by VinothChandar

Transportation/ shelter

  • Lived in long houses with women's family
  • Houses were made of trees like birch and elm.
  • They used birch canoes and dogs as pack animals
  • Houses were up to 150 feet long.
  • Houses were furnished with animal hides. 

landscape

  • Lived in now-a-days Ontario
  • Close to lake Huron and lake Simcoe.
  • Decidious forests with bears, moose, deer, raccoon ect
  • Harsh winters and hot summers that are very windy.
  • Neighboring Iroquois and Algonquin.
Photo by Яick Harris

Labour division

  • Men took on the heavier tasks
  • Men protected villages, hunted, and traded.
  • Women would take care of everyday life.
  • Women would make clothing, baskets, cooked. 
  • Women would also collect berries and such. 

Matrilineal family

  • The men would live with wife's family in a long house.
  • Property was shared between the men and women.
  • The women would determine the male cheif in their villages.
  • Clan mothers were the elders that would help with decision making.
  •  Women overall had more of the power. 
Photo by Paul Mannix