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World Cultures 400 - 1600 C.E.

Your research project is designed to give you the opportunity to find out more about what some cultures were like around the world during the time period of the Middle Ages.
Note that you are looking at an Indigenous culture as it was BEFORE colonization.
Your teacher has provided you with some options for your research. Below, are some starting points, using the digital databases available to us at our school. Don't forget to search our library collection as well, for the school-based resources. Be sure to ask for help if you need it!
Other Databases:
​Destiny - the library catalogue

Encyclopedia Universalis - For French Immersion students.
Present day Canada and the US:
Canadian Encyclopedia
Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage -Canadian Museum of History

World Book Iroquois
Britannica Iroquois

World Book Algonquin
World Book Algonquin
Britannica Algonquin
World Book Chippewa (Ojibwa)
Britannica Ojibwa

Inuit
World Book Inuit
Britannica Inuit
Canadian Encyclopedia - Inuit Collection - use the tabs at the side to find more focused articles
Face Tattoos

​Western Canadian Indigenous Group (You choose and check out your choice with your teacher)
World Book Haida
Haida Tribe
Britannica Haida



Further afield (Central & South America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Japan):

​Maya (now Mexico/Guatemala)
World Book Maya
Britannica Maya
Universalis (francais) Maya
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Youtube Mayan History Videos

Inca (now Peru)
World Book Inca

Britannica Inca
Universalis (francais) Inca
Youtube Inca History Video

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Aboriginal Australians OR Maori (now Australia and New Zealand)
World Book Aboriginal People of Australia
Britannica Australian Aboriginal peoples

World Book Maori
Britannica Maori

Zulu OR Masai (areas of the African continent)
Word Book Zulu
Britannica Zulu


Masai
Britannica Masai

Ainu (in present-day Japan)
World Book Ainu

Britannica - Ainu
Origins of the Ainu - Nova
BBC News - Recognition of Ainu
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The Ainu Peoples of Japan - Tofugu
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