Posted: November 24th, 2015

Anishinabe course quiz

The following Quiz is worth 10% of your grade. Each question/answer is worth .5%, 1%, 1.5% or 2%. Your responses should provide more detail in relation to the grade points the question is worth. For example:

• .5% question: 1 – 2 sentence response
• 1% question: 2 – 3 sentence response
• 5% question: 3 – 5 sentence response
• 2% question: 5 – 6 sentence response

Your answers should be based on the class lectures, The Mishomis Book, handouts and on-line content included in the classes this term.

1. What is the purpose of the Sweat Lodge ceremony? Explain. (1%)
2. What is the Megis shell and what is its importance in the Anishinabe Creation Story? (1%)
3. What is Sweetgrass used for, where is this medicine placed in the Four Directions teaching, and what does the braiding of sweetgrass represent? (1%)
4. What are the human lessons that Waynaboozho learned from Bay-bee’-mi-say-si’? (1%)
5. List the Seven Grandfather Teachings (values) and for each, identify a behaviour that you would consider an example of how to express that value as a university student. (2%)
6. What did the Seven Spiritual Beings who came to clarify how the Clan System was to be used bring to the Anishinabe people? (1%)
7. Chief Dean Sayers (lecture, October 15^th at Rankin First Nation) identified the Treaty that Canada has with his First Nation community: what is the name of that treaty? (.5%)
8. In the Four Directions Teaching (fourdirectionsteachings.com), Lillian Petawanaquot told you about the 7 stages of live. What are these stages? (1%)
9. What are the traditional roles and responsibilities of the Bird Clan, and what would the contemporary application of their roles/responsibilitiesbe if the Anishinabe Clan System was the form of local governance in a First Nation today? (1.5%)