First Nations and Inuit Economies

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First Nations and Inuit Economies
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What do people need and want?

• In the past, First Nations and Inuit based their
  economies on land and natural resources.
• Natural resources are resources which are found
  in nature such as trees, animals, stone etc.
• Needs and wants were based on survival First
  Nations and Inuit needed and wanted what was
  necessary to survive.

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How will we produce those goods and services?

• First Nations and Inuit people produced the goods
  and services they needed very efficiently. They
  did not waste any of their resources.
• People mostly lived in family groups and
  travelled through the year depending on what
  resources were available.
• Everyone worked together, everyone had a job to
  do.

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• First Nations and Inuit people saw themselves as
  part of nature. They did not believe anyone
  owned the land.
• As a result, they were very careful about how
  they used land and the resources it provided.

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How will the goods be distributed?

• Because everyone helped with the production of
  goods, everyone shared equally.
• In hard times, everyone helped one another so
  that they could survive.
• Each nation used large areas of land and water to
  gather their resources. Sometimes these nations
  had clear boundaries, but many times, even the
  land itself was shared equally among groups.