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GLOSSARY
alliances Indigenous
unions formed in which all originating in a certain place
members benefit
Loyalists
coopers people who were loyal to Great
people who make casks Britain during the American War
or barrels of Independence
flax slates
a fibre from the flax plant that tablets that children used
can be used to make fabric for writing
fur trade treaties
a period between the 1600s formal agreements
and the 1800s when Indigenous
Peoples traded animal furs
with Europeans for guns
and supplies
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