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Where in Alberta?

Based on clues from pictures provided, match the regions of Alberta with the First Nations people and language groups that lived there.


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Title: Images Canada
Host: Library and Archives Canada
Description: This website is a database of images.
Navigation Tips: Click on Image Trails, Photo Essays or Education Resources to access images and information, or type in keyword(s), such as First Nations in Alberta, and click Go to bring up images.
Note: Use other keywords to bring up different results.
URL:

http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html?PHPSESSID=o3k1n5nabp24acgnnrgdugcnn3

 

Title: Alberta
Host: Natural Resources Canada
Description: This website contains a printable outline map of Alberta.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to find the Alberta maps.
URL: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/node/16846#provincial-and-territorial-outline

 

Title: The Atlas of Canada. Discover Canada through National Maps and Facts.  Aboriginal Languages by Community, 1996
Host: Natural Resources Canada
Description: This website contains a map of major Aboriginal language families in Canada.
Navigation Tips: Click on any area of the map to zoom in, scroll down to read the abstract or click on Read more about this map to access information.
URL: http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/population.html#language

 

Title: GeoGratis APE
Host: Government of Canada
Description: This website contains a map of Aboriginal communities in Canada and an explanation of the Index of Ability.
URL: http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/e50672cf-8893-11e0-afc5-6cf049291510.html

 

Title: First Nations in Alberta
Host: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Description: This website contains a list of First Nations in three treaty areas, an Alberta First Nations map and a list of First Nations administrative and political organizations in Alberta.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access Treaties and an Alberta First Nations Map..
URL: http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100020670/1100100020675

 

Title: Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life
Host: Glenbow Museum
Description: This website contains a virtual exhibit entitled The Story of the Blackfoot People.
Navigation Tips: Click on Blackfoot, English or French and then on Flash or HTML to access the exhibit. Glide over the pictographs to display titles and click to access text, images and audio.
Note: Check site requirements and download Flash, Quicktime or Windows Media Player if needed.
URL: http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/index.htm

 

Title:

The Making of Treaty 8 in Canada’s Northwest

Host:

Heritage Community Foundation  (Now archived by the University of Alberta)

Description:

This website contains a Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit. Scroll down to read the text and click on highlighted words within the text to access information.

Navigation Tips:

Click on headings—The Treaty; The Setting; The People, Their Places; 1899 & After—in the left-hand-side menu to access additional information.
Note: Click on The Setting and then on Audio Feature to listen to brief interviews, in English as well as in Cree, with historians and  members of First Nations communities.

URL:

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208160658/http://www.albertasource.ca/treaty8//eng/default.htm

 

Title:

Archaeology and Pre-Contact

Host:

Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta)

Description:

The website provides an overview of archaeology in Alberta.

Navigation Tips:

Scroll down to read the text. Click on headings in the left-hand side menu or on highlighted words within the text to access additional information.

URL:

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208160604/http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta/en/archaeology/index.html

 

Title:

Alberta’s Natural Resources

Host:

Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta)

Description:

The website provides links to information about Alberta’s history, environment and resources.

Navigation Tips:

Click on a link to access information on a topic.

URL:

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208160315/http://www.abheritage.ca/abresources/

 

Title: The Spirit of Alberta
Host: 2Learn.caEducation Society
Description: This website contains links, projects and classroom activities that enable teachers to integrate the Alberta theme into many aspects of curriculum.
Navigation Tips: Point the cursor at a heading at the top of the screen—Projects, Activities, Resources, Tools, Web Links—and click to view a drop-down menu; then click on any item in the drop-down menu to access information.
URL: http://www.spiritofalberta.ca/

 

Title:

The People of the Boreal Forest

Host:

Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta)

Description:

This website contains the story of Terry Garvin, a young man from Craig, Saskatchewan, and his journey into the boreal forest of Canada’s northwest.

Navigation Tips:

Click menu choices to access information.

URL:

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208161550/http://www.edukits.ca/boreal/student/multimedia/photos.html

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