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JUNE 21stJUNE 21st National Aboriginal Day

Celebrate National Aboriginal Day at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

TeacherWorkbook

Create a personalized day of activities and events on

our historic site and celebrate First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures.

Schedule for Performing Groups & Demonstrations

We have provided this colour-coded chart for you to use when choosing the PERFORMANCES and DEMONSTRACTIONS that you and your students would like to attend. Check off all of the

areas and then consult the map in the middle of this work-book to find the location.

Aztec Drumming Group

John SomosiHand Drumming

Misty Creek Drumming Group

Performers orDemonstration Location

NorthCourt

NorthCourt

# 25

# 18

# 25

# 28

# 19

# 20

ChristianNativeArea

Performance or Demonstration Times

WaterwayDemonstration

NativeStory-telling

Native Games

17th CenturyMedicinal Herbs & Teas

Fire-startingTechniques

Native Clothing

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Curriculum Links

Primary Programs - Links with Grade 3 Curriculum• Describe the communities of early settlers and First Nation peoples. • Compare aspects of life in early settler communities and present-day communities

• Use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate information on the interactions between new settlers...and First Nation peoples

Junior Programs - Links with Grade 6 Curriculum• Describe characteristics of pre-contact First Nation cultures...including their close relationship with the natural environment, the motivations and attitudes of the European Explorers, and the effects of contact

• Use a variety of resources and tools to investigate different historical points of view about the positive and negative effects of early contact between First Nation peoples and European Explorers

Intermediate Programs - Links with Grade 7 Curriculum• Outline the reasons why settlers came to New France; Describe how settlers and fur traders interacted with the First Nation peoples

• Use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate information about how settlers in New France met the physical, social, and economic challenges of the new land

Senior Programs - Links with Grade 9 Curriculum

• Describe how their art forms demonstrate the relationships of Aboriginal people to themselves, their families, their communities and their nations.

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Locations of Performances, Demonstrations & ActivitiesSite Map

NativeArea

NativeArea

SouthCourtSouthCourt

NorthCourtNorth Court

Christian ShelterArborWigwam

Their Superior, Father Jérome Lalemant, dreamed of "building a house apart, remote from the vicinity of the villages, that would serve among other things for the retreat and meditation of our evangelistic labourers."

The dream was realized as a wilderness mission rose on the banks of the Isaraqui (Wye) River in 1639. Courageous laymen travelled from France to give their talents to the construction of the mission which was named Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, using the French name for the Wendat people.

Hard work and dedication soon brought Sainte-Marie to virtual self-sufficiency, a miraculous achievement for a community 1,200 kilometres from Quebec. Sadly it only lasted ten short years.

In the 17th century, the land we know as Canada was New France. The population numbered in the low hundreds, and most of the inhabitants lived along the Saint Lawrence River, their livelihood based on fish, furs and fledgling agriculture. The Ottawa and French Rivers provided a rugged inland waterway which carried precious books, mail, personnel, furs, building material and even livestock between Quebec and the wilderness mission. A particularly priceless item of canoe cargo was the annual report written by the Superior at Sainte-Marie and sent via Quebec to his higher Superior, the Provincial in Paris. Composed mainly in French and occasionally in Latin, these meticulous accounts of day-to-day experiences in the mission fields tell us a great deal about life and missionary labour at Sainte-Marie. They are an unparalleled first-hand resource. It is from the annual Relation written by Father Paul Ragueneau that we learn of the heartbreak and despair that led to the eventual abandonment of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons.

In the spring of 1649 under growing pressure and attacks from the Iroquois, Jesuit missionaries, their helpers and Wendat followers withdrew from Sainte-Marie and put it to the torch.

The Sainte-Marie Story The spell of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons lies in the very land upon which it stands. Located along the shores of -Samuel de Champlain's "mer douce"-- and surrounded by wooded hillsides, this was the ancestral homeland of the Wendat nation, a branch of the Iroquoian family. The Wendat were a matriarchal society of good traders and skillful farmers who called their land Wendake -- the land apart.

French Jesuits came to Wendake in the 17th century. As an international order, the Society of Jesus operated like an army dedicated to spreading Catholicism throughout the world. They believed, with their founder Ignatius Loyola, that the first step in saving one's neighbour was to educate him.

Georgian Bay

Encouraged by Champlain, who saw conversion to Christianity as a first step in the colonisation of the North American native people, the Jesuits established themselves in Wendake. They travelled from village to village endeavouring to perfect their knowledge of the Wendat language, learning the aboriginal customs, and tirelessly preaching to the Native people.

Schedule for Site ActivitiesWe have provided this chart below for you to use when choosing the ALL DAY ACTIVITIES that you and your students would like to attend during this event. Check off all of the areas and then

consult the map in the middle of this work-book to find the location.

Foyer Film

OrientationSlide Show

Activity Location

Theatres

Foyer

Foyer

Foyer

#5

#15

#29

#28

#1

SouthCourt

SouthCourt

ChristianShelter

#29

ArborWigwam

Activity Times

Museum Film

Childrens’Crafts

ThreeSisters

Make A Bone Game

BannockMaking

CanoePitching

Clay Workshop

LacrosseDemo

MakingCorn Darts

Teas in theHospital

Survival In The BushEncampment

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BasketMaking

They fled to St. Joseph (now Christian) Island where together they embarked to establish a new Sainte-Marie.

The following spring, after a terrible winter of starvation and constant attack, the Frenchmen and the surviving Christian Wendat returned to Quebec. The Wendat eventually gathered at Jeune Lorette in 1697, and began to rebuild their culture and their nation.

“The Four Seasons”

“High Steel”