Economy and Development

1. Economy and Development First Occupants

2. Trade networks • Characteristics of trade networks • economic activities practiced by Native peoples • hunting, • fishing, • gathering, • Agriculture • Products traded between Native groups • shells and stones used as tools and weapons, corn • Native trade networks • the trade networks spanned the continent and were based onbarter • there were many intermediaries and most transportation was by water • helped form alliances between Native groups

3. Trade Networks

4. Effects of economic activities on the organization of the society and the territory Effects on Native groups and the organization of their society • the practice of hunting led the Maliseet to adopt a nomadic lifestyle and a patriarchal structure • the practice of farming led the Huron to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and a matriarchal structure • Effects on Native groups and the organization of their territory • the practice of hunting led the Maliseet to set up temporary camps on their hunting grounds • the practice of farming led the Huron to set out fields around their villages

5. European fishing grounds • Fishing • First economic activity that brought Europeans to the shores of North America • First contacts • the context for the first meetings between European fishers and Amerindians • fishersdrying cod on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence met Amerindian hunters • products that the Amerindians obtained from European fishers in exchange for furs • knives, • pots, • glass • effects of contacts with European fishers on Amerindian society and territory • increased harvesting of fur-bearing animals to trade with the European fishers; • circulation ofEuropean products through Amerindian trade networks

6. Fur Trade

7. Drying Cod on Shores