To learn, traditionally Aboriginal children watched, listened to and imitated adults. The little girls followed their mothers: they made small terracotta vases, prepared the dough for bannock (bread), scraped animal skins, cooked the meat, smoked the fish … Boys went with their fathers to hunt, fish, travel by canoe; they learned to make tools, weapons, dwellings … And all listened to the elders tell the legends and the history of their people.
