Early Native Americans
The time before history was written down.
What is prehistory?
A scientist who studies the origin and development of humans.
What is an anthropologist.
Before a newborn Native American could suckle from his/her mother this happened.
Ancestry traced through the mother.
What is matrilineal?
A manner of exchanging goods.
The time period when mastodons lived.
What is the Paleo period?
An important game for Native Americans in South Carolina.
What is chunkey?
Keeping the home fires burning, learning to make pottery, and working in the garden.
What are some of the responsibilities of Native American girls?
Keepers of the household.
What is the women's responsibility in a Native American home.
To gain just enough to survive.
The time period when pottery was first made.
What is the Archaic period?
The process by which people use natural resources to provide for their well being.
What is economy?
Requirement before a Native American boy became a warrior.
What is a rite of passage?
To prevent marriage of close relatives.
Why did the father have to be from a different clan?
Typhus, measles and influenza
What are some of the diseases the Europeans infected the Native Americans with?
The time period when large numbers of woolly mammoths were killed unnecessarily.
What is the Paleo period?
Items once used by ancient Native Americans.
What are artifacts?
Caused a child to grow to be strong and straight.
What is being strapped to a cradle board?
Thirty to fifty tribes
The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria
What three ships did Columbus take to America?
The path early Native Americans used to get from China to the Americas.
What is the Bering land bridge.
The type of housing construction the Cherokee Indians were most likely to have used.
What is wattle and daub?
Tool young boys used to kill small animals.
What is a blowgun
Harmony
What was the goal within the Native American society for justice.
500-550
How many Native Americans Columbus brought back to Spain.