Eastern Woodlands
What types of shelter did the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans live in?
Longhouses and Wigwams
What types of shelter did the Southwest Native Americans live in?
Hogans and Pueblos
What types of shelter did the Plains Indians live in?
Tipis or Earth Lodges
What types of shelter did the Northwest Native Americans live in?
What technology allowed Natives to build permanent villages instead of being nomads?
Storage containers
What was the most important resource for the Eastern Woodlands?
Trees
What was the purpose of sand paintings?
heal people who were sick
Who set up the tipis?
Women
What was the purpose of totem poles?
Tell a family or clan's history
What technology allowed Native Americans to hunt from a distance?
Bow and Arrow
What are the three sisters crop?
corn, beans, squash
What was the purpose of kachinas?
Give comfort and hope, bring rain
What was the most important resource of Plains?
Buffalo
What did the Northwest Natives make their clothes out of?
Cedar, deerskin
Which group made large stone heads of their rulers?
Olmec
What is the name of the fence they build around their villages?
palisades
True or False: A Southwest Father can see their child right after they are born
False
Plains Indians moved around alot making them _________
nomads
What are the 4 social classes?
chiefs, nobles, commoners, slaves
What type of government did the Eastern Woodlands have? It was also a simple _______.
League of Five Nations, democracy
What did both women and men wear?
jewelry
What part of the buffalo was used to process leather?
Brain
What is a potlatch?
a party where the chief would show off his wealth
What technology allowed Natives to pierce the thick hides of mammoths?
clovis point