... religious spirits carved on them. The totem pole told a story of the history of the family. You could tell a family's importance by looking at their totem pole. Another way a family showed its importance was to have a potlatch. The inside of the house also had carved posts if the family was an important one. When a child was old enough to understand, the time had come to learn the history of the family. When it came ... all around their villages. The Iroquois Indians used the pelts of animals for their clothing. In the winter, the men wore shirts, leggings, and moccasins made of buckski...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . In exchange for food, shelter and a little education, aborigines were subjected to the discipline of police and reserve managers. They had to follow the rules of the reserve and tolerate searchers of their homes and themselves. Their children could be taken away at any time and "apprenticed" out as cheap labour for Europeans. "The old ways of the Aborigines were attacked by regimented efforts to make them European" . Their identities ... many Aboriginal men, especially unemployed, slipped into aimlessness" . Traditionally the male role within the family was that of hunter and gatherer...

• Word Count: 2033
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Graduate