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.
