While Aboriginal kids these days listen to Kid Frost and play video games
whether they live in Iqaluit, Montreal, or Vancouver, in the past we all lived
quite differently depending on where we were from. Some peoples lived in traveling
communities which practiced hunting and gathering, others lived in villages and
practiced farming, still others did both. No matter how we lived, Aboriginal peoples
developed ways and means to survive in harsh climates for thousands of years.
We solved problems related to transport, shelter, health, communications and other
things in unique and innovative ways. At the Native Access to Engineering Program
we like to refer to these innovations as Ancestral Engineering. |
