| A | B |
|---|
| archaeologist | scientist who studies people and their belongings from long ago |
| currency | money |
| extinction | no longer existing |
| felt | cloth made from the hair of beavers |
| fragile | easily broken |
| Gichi Onigaming | "great carrying place," the Ojibwe name for Grand Portage |
| pelts | skins of fur-bearing animals |
| pemmican | food made from pounded meat and fat of buffalo or other animals, sometimes mixed with berries |
| portage | carry a canoe and its contents across land |
| rapids | dangerous place in streams where water moves very fast among rocks |
| rendezvous | meeting |
| steersman | voyageur who stood at the rear of the canoe and used a long paddle to steer |
| tumpline | strap voyageurs attached to their packs and placed across their forehead to help them carry the heavy loads |
| voyageurs | sturdy workers who paddled canoes far into the wilderness, carrying supplies, furs, and canoes overland between waterways |
| whim | sudden desire with no particular reason behind it |
