Grade 5 Social Studies · nothing is recorded
Plan a year on the land.
An Anishinaabe family, about 1600, moves with the seasons: sugar bush in spring, fish camp in summer, rice beds in fall, hunting grounds in winter. Decide how many days go to each. The land sets the rules — sap only runs in spring, rice only ripens in fall, and a big winter group empties the forest around it. Numbers are simulated.
The other 265 days are winter hunting.
What the year stores
- Maple sugar
- 120 kg
- Dried fish
- 600 kg
- Wild rice
- 240 kg
- Meat
- 3180 kg
Total stored4,140 kgneeded: 3,504 kg for 8 people
Days the stores last431a full year and more
Meat per hunter per day3 kgfalls as the winter group grows
Try 24 people through the winter: meat per hunter drops, because game is spread thin in snow. That is why the summer camp split into small family groups every fall — a plan, not a wander (A3.1).