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Aboriginal Culture & Language

Aboriginal Culture & Language. What is Culture?. Culture is defined as a people’s shared beliefs, values, practices, and traditions, or a way of thinking and acting. “a way of life”

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Aboriginal Culture & Language

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  1. Aboriginal Culture &Language

  2. What is Culture? • Culture is defined as a people’s shared beliefs, values, practices, and traditions, or a way of thinking and acting. • “a way of life” • Culture can include language, knowledge and beliefs, laws and moral values, customs and traditions, art and music.

  3. What is language? • Is a systematic way of relating meaning with the sounds made by the human voice. • Language can assign meaning to anything is existence or anything the human mind can consider…for example “Bootylicious” is a term now understood by many people and is even in the dictionary, but up until several years ago the combination of these sounds had no meaning. • A society or group must agree that certain sounds correspond to certain meanings in order for language to make sense and develop.

  4. Language Families of North America Copy the following chart

  5. Map Instructions • Turn to Page 37 of the text and use the description of the regions to complete the directions below. • Shade in these 5 regions in different colours on the map provided. • Label all Provinces and Territories and capital cities. • Don’t forget to provide a legend.

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