WANUPARDY Answer Key CATEGORY $ VALUE QUESTION ANSWER 200 How Many Years Have They Been Excavating For? What Is 38 Years

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WANUPARDY Answer Key CATEGORY $ VALUE QUESTION ANSWER 200 How many years have they been excavating for? What is 38 years. How many years have Northern Plains Indigenous 400 What is 6000+ years BP (before present). people lived is the Opimihaw Valley? What is “Seeking Peace of Mind” or “Peaceful Gathering 600 What does “Wanuskewin” mean in Cree? Place.” Wanuskewin 800 “Opimihaw” was his Cree name; what does it What is “the one who flies (or hovers) above the ground.” *DOUBLE* translate to? What are campsites, processing sites, bison kill sites 1000 Name two site types. (Bison Jumps and Bison Pound), or the Northern most documented Medicine Wheel of the Plains. 200 Is it Bone, Stone, or Wood? Stone. 400 Is it Bone, Stone, or Wood? Bone. Is it bone, stone, or 600 Is it Bone, Stone, or Wood? Stone. wood? 800 Is it Bone, Stone, or Wood? Bone. 1000 Is it Bone, Stone, or Wood? Tooth. Trick Question. 200 Name two types of objects that can be used to What is seeds, plants, bone, or charcoal. *DOUBLE* calculate radiocarbon dates. What is the most recent archaeological site at 400 Wanuskewin that was excavated and what type of What is the Wolf Willow Site. What is a campsite. site was it? Excavation What type of faunal (animal) bone is most 600 What is bison bone. abundant in the Opimihaw Valley? This is an example of a Cultural Feature found at 800 What is a hearth or fire pit. the Wolf Willow Site. What is it? What is finding, identifying, mapping, cataloguing, and 1000 Name three of their excavation responsibilities. keeping track of every artifact they find.

Wanuskewin has been a centre of excellence for 200 What is June 1992. education and tourism since what year? Name the seven contemporary Indigenous culture Who are the Plains Cree, Dene, Dakota, Nakota, 400 groups that are recognized at Wanuskewin. Saulteaux, Blackfoot, and Metis. What is 1876 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan, or 1876 at 600 When and where was Treaty 6 signed? Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan. These two pieces of clay played an important role History of 800 in building one of Saskatchewan’s most What are gaming pieces. Sask successful industries. What are they? What is: - Glacier Ice Sheet - 15,000 years BP List the sequence of major events from Ice Age to - Glacier Lake Saskatoon - 12,000 years BP 1000 now that has shaped the Opimihaw Valley. - Braided River System - 10,000 years BP - South Saskatchewan River dug deeper, and Opimihaw Valley established - 7,000 years BP What TV show follows a crime fighting Forensic 200 Anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, and FBI What is Bones. Agent Seeley Booth? Indiana Jones is a very well-known archaeologist. 400 Name three reasons why he is not actually a good What is literally everything. archaeologist.

TV and If Wanuskewin focuses on Plains Archaeology, Movies 600 what field of archaeology would The Mummy, What is Egyptology. starring Brendan Fraser, focus on? In Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the main character, Milo Thatch, is an anthropologist who 800 What is Linguistic Anthropology. studies the lost language of Atlantis. What would this field of anthropology be called? In Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, the lead 1000 What is Dr. Grant isn’t an archaeologist. Trick researcher is Dr. Alan Grant. What type of *DOUBLE* Question. archaeology does Dr. Grant do?

Tipis are the traditional homes of the Northern What is Red Willow Lodging. Plains people. These conical structures were meant to be set up and taken down in a short Through the archaeological record, there is little period of time, allowing the migratory peoples to evidence, if any, that these lodges leave behind. The Final Teams travel across the landscape. We know, through the lodge would have not survived decomposition because it WANUPARDY wager their dating of tipi rings, that tipis were used as far back was made up of red willow branches, organic rope, and

points as 2000 years BP. hides. We know of these structures from the surviving

oral history of the peoples. If people lived in the Opimihaw Valley for 6000 years BP, what style of home did they live in before There cannot be archaeology tipis? without oral history.