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Diverse Peoples – Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions C 2.2.1 Diverse Peoples – Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions c CANOES – Canoes made of UPSET STOMACH bark and pitch varied greatly CORN – Corn is a staple food REMEDIES – A tea made with in size, depending on what that was cultivated by the entire blackberry plant they were needed for. Today’s Aboriginal people for was used for a number of recreational canoe is thousands of years. Today, sicknesses, including fashioned after this corn is a vital, hardy, and dysentery, cholera, and upset Aboriginal invention, and it, high-yielding plant that can stomach. Eating the actual along with the kayak, is grow practically everywhere berry or drinking its juice was unsurpassed throughout the in the world. also an effective way to world for travelling over control diarrhea. shallow or difficult waterways. PETROLEUM JELLY – DART GAME – Some Aboriginal people discovered LACROSSE – Aboriginal Aboriginal people created the petroleum jelly and used it to people played hundreds of game of lawn darts, using moisten and protect animal outdoor team sports. Lacrosse shucked new green corn with and human skin. It was also is a team sport invented by its kernels removed. Feathers used to stimulate healing. This Aboriginal people, which many were attached to the darts, skin ointment is one of the believe is the forerunner to which were tossed at targets most popular in the world hockey. on the ground. today. COUGH SYRUP – Many Aboriginal people throughout SNOWSHOES – Aboriginal WILD RICE – Wild rice is Canada developed unique people developed technology actually a delicious and prized combinations of wild plants to for travel over snow. Many cereal grain. It was misnamed relieve coughs due to colds. kinds of snowshoes were by European newcomers The same ingredients are developed by Aboriginal because of its rice-like found in many cough medicines people. A very common style appearance. Some Aboriginal sold today. The balsam of was made from spruce and people presented wild rice as various pine trees, maple rawhide thongs. treasured gifts to fur traders syrup, or honey, are mixed as a symbol of friendship. with teas made from healing plants to produce very effective cough medicines. (page 1 of 4) 2.2.1 Diverse Peoples – Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions c CURE FOR SCURVY – CHEWING GUM – Aboriginal SNOW GOGGLES – Northern Aboriginal people shared their people discovered the first Aboriginal people developed cure for scurvy with European chewing gum, which was bone, antler, and ivory goggles newcomers. The bark and collected from spruce trees. to prevent blinding snow glare needles of an evergreen tree In the 1800s, sugar was while they hunted. such as hemlock or pine were added, and chewing gum has boiled to make a vitamin C- since become popular rich tonic, which scurvy throughout the world. sufferers drank. TOBOGGAN – The Mi’kmaq SUNFLOWERS – Sunflowers people of eastern Canada PAIN RELIEF – The active are native to North America invented the toboggan, or ingredient in today’s most and were important sources taba’gan to use the Mi’kmaq commonly used pain reliever of nutrition for the original word. Toboggans were first was known to Aboriginal inhabitants. Today, growers made of bark and animal skins. people in North American for harvest sunflowers for their By the year 1600, Mi’kmaq centuries. Pain relievers such seeds in Canada, the United toboggans were made of thin as Aspirin™ use an acid, which States, Europe, and parts of boards, curved at the front. is found in 15 to 20 different Asia and South America. They were ideal for hauling species of the willow tree, Sunflower seeds are popular game out of the woods, moving including the pussy willow. snacks today because they camp, and for travel. Many are tasty, healthy, and winter sports have grown out nutritious. of this original invention, including luge and bobsledding. KAYAK – Kayaking started thousands of years ago in the Arctic regions of what we now call Greenland, Siberia, and North America. Inuit, the original people of the Canadian Far North, used the kayak to travel, to fish, and to hunt large sea mammals, seals, and even caribou. Today, the sport of kayaking is loved worldwide. Reproduced with permission from First Nations and Inuit Contributions and Inventions Colouring Book, published under the authority of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, 1998. (page 2 of 4) 2.2.1 Diverse Peoples – Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions c (page 3 of 4) 2.2.1 Diverse Peoples – Aboriginal Contributions and Inventions c Reproduced with permission from First Nations and Inuit Contributions and Inventions Colouring Book, published under the authority of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, 1998. (page 4 of 4) .
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