HOW DID THE CAT

LAKE PEOPLE

HUNT AND

GATHER?

B Y : LI A

M SI M

P S O N

WHAT DID THEY HUNT AND WHY?The Cat Lake people hunted because…

During cold winter months the ground would be covered with snow and the lake would be frozen over. So they were forced to trap and hunt. They also hunted and fished in the summer.

ANIMALS THEY HUNTED AND TRAPPED WERE…Raccoon, bear, squirrel, beaver, moose, seal,

caribou, whale

WEAPONS THEY USED WERE…Clubs Spears

Bow and arrow

THESE ARE THE ANIMALS THEY HUNTED

SOME OF THE TRAPS THEY USED WERE…

Trap

Snares Deadfalls

GATHERING…While hunting the hunters would also

gather. Some of the berries and plants they would gather in the summer were…

Black berries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, wild rice, roots and nuts lots of nuts.

PICTURES OF THE BERRIES AND PLANTS…

THIS IS A VIDEO OF HOW THE CAT LAKE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TRAPPED BIRDS

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS…DO NOT USE MORE FROM THE ECO SYSTEM THAN YOU NEED.

BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/

fp_groups/fp_wh3.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_History/The_People_of_the_Lands/Ojibwa

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