Around 1500, only a few Indigenous Nations used symbols or written language. Instead, histories and knowledge were passed on orally. Oral traditions are still very important to many Indigenous Peoples today.
Not a lot of written records exist about individuals from Algonquian language familyA language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language… around 1500. Most of the information about this time has been passed on through oral traditions and storytelling practices. Other information has come from archaeological discoveries and the testimonies written by Europeans when they arrived on the North American continent.
Important concepts & Big ideas
ArchaeologyArchaeology is the study of things that people made, used, and left behind. The goal of…
Oral traditionOral tradition is where knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted from…
Language familyA language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language…
