Today we had the opportunity to visit the Huron traditional site in Wendake, a protected reservation land for the First Nations people, outside of Quebec City. The site also known as Onhoüa Chetek8e provided a history of the Huron people as well as their customs and traditions. Our Huron guide taught us how the traditions have stopped or changed today and why. This photograph shows our Huron guide dressed in traditional clothing. In this picture, he is showing us the living quarter that the clan mother would run for about four families. One ingesting fact is that the daughters would choose their husbands, and the husband would move into the living quarters with the wife’s family for a trial period of three weeks after which the wife could decided she did not want him to stay. If this happened, the man would have to leave all of the gifts he brought and return home to his family’s living quarters.

Another opportunity we had while at the Huron traditional site was to learn about present day Wendake. One question that I had for our Huron guide was of Canadian schools teach the history of the Huron people and other First Nation people through the lens of the Canadians or through the lens of the First Nation people themselves. Unfortunately, our guide had the same answer to the question that I would expect to hear in the United States that the history of their population is never taught from their own perspective. The photograph above shows the school in Wendake. Our guide told us that this school goes up to 6th grade and teaches the students the First Nations language of the Huron people. Additionally, any adults are able to come take night classes to learn the language as well. After 6th grade, the students move to Quebec City to attend school.