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14 Cards in this Set
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Northeastern Culture Area Groups
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Mohawk and Mi'kmaq
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Iroquoian Linguistic Family Group
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Mohawk
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Algonkian Linguistic Group
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Mi'kmaq
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Differences between Mohawk and Mi'kmaq environment?
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Mohawk along the bay and up to the St. Lawrence River
Mi'kmaq woodland and coast of St.Lawrence River; Lakes |
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Dwellings of Mi'kmaq
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Birch-bark mat wigwams, mobile, birch canoe to carry household items, patrilocal extended families,
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Dwelling of Mohawk
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Longhouses, palisades, partitioned and matron owned, relocated every 10-20 years.
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Economic Typology for Mohawk
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Horticulturists, with a gender labor division with hunting: had communal V drives
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Economic Typology for Mi'Kmaq
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Foragers; seasonal, both woodlands(moose) and seas/lakes (fis), communal ownership,
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Political Typology for Mohawk
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3 clans bears,turtles, wolf elder/younger moieties. Mourning Wars and Beaver War
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Political Typology for Mi'Kmaq
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Egalitarian, loose bands, tribal chiefs were sagamores (control over small territories) divided into 3 organizations: band, territory, confederacy
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Mohawk Kinship
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Matrilineal, matrilocal, totem clan moiety, gift exchange between mother and daughter-in law
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Mi'kmaq Kinship
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Bilateral with patrilocal organization, bride service of 2 years
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Religious Mohawk
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Natural and Personified Pantheon, 3 sisters, sky woman, sapling and flint,
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Religous Mi'kmaq
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Natural and Personified Pantheon, taboos, disease theories
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