Aboriginal Awareness
Cub Scouts learn about the past and present contributions of Canada's First Peoples, and develop positive attitudes about these contributions.
Requirements
Do any four of the following requirements:
- Tell about or show four or more items that were invented by Aboriginal people and which we still use today.
- Make a list of Aboriginal words that are used as names of places, such as provinces and territories, cities, towns, parks, roads and waterways. Discover the Aboriginal meaning of these words.
- Learn about some of the Aboriginal people who first lived in your area. Using historical information and designs, make a model or display that shows their dwellings, how they traveled, their writing and art forms, and objects used for daily living.
- Learn an Aboriginal game, song, dance or story and share it with your six or pack.
- Tell how an Aboriginal people's way of life is affected by the part of the country in which they live.
- Discover and tell how Aboriginal people helped early explorers and pioneers to settle in Canada.
- If possible, arrange to visit with an Aboriginal person. Find out how that person's life is similar to or different from how Aboriginal people lived long ago.
