Native American Homes
This kind of home was built by the Hopi Indians. It was made of stone and mud and stood several stories high.
What is pueblo?
The Navajo tribe lived in this area.
What is the Southwest?
Also known as First peoples, Aboriginal peoples or Native peoples, these are ethnic groups who are the original owners and caretakers of a given region
Who are Indigenous peoples?
How does environment affect where you live?
Possible answers: You have to have food, water, and shelter in order to survive. Therefore, you will choose a location where you can find these things. The Pawnee traveled so they could find buffalo to eat and survive. The Inuit built Igloos during the winter to survive.
This tribe lived in the Great Plains. They ate maize and buffalo. They used buffalo hides for their clothing, as well as for their teepees.
What is Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa. Arikara, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kaw (or Kansa), Kitsai, Mandan, Missouria, Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Quapaw, Wichita, and the Santee Dakota, Yanktonai and Yankton Dakota.
This kind of home was built in a dome-shape, and covered with grass or birchbark.
What is a wigwam?
Native American tribes were often named after this.
What is tribal language?
A grain which has kernels which is often yellow, but can be various shades of red and brown enclosed in a leafy husk. It is an important food source for the Native Americans.
What is maize/corn?
The first area settled by English colonists.
What is the Eastern Woodlands, Jamestown?
A cone-shaped tent, usually covered with animal skins, used as a home, especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.
What is a teepee?
Buffalos could weigh up to this much.
What is one tonne?
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
What is colonisation?
Give me 2 interesting facts about one of the tribes you studied during your research.
What is show the teacher.
A temporary house made of branches and sticks.
What is a brush house?
This part of the buffalo was used to prepare and preserve the hide.
What are buffalo brains?
The dung of the Buffalo used for fuel.
What are buffalo chips?
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American tribal area.
Kwakiutl - forests and ocean, cold winters and moderate summers, trees for homes and clothing, potlatches for celebrations Inuit - ice and snow, extreme cold, Artic Ocean for food, caribou for clothing Pawnee - travelled on flat land to hunt buffalo for food, clothing, and housing Seminoles - lived in Florida where it is mostly hot and muggy, swamps, lakes, and forests, used palm trees for clothing and chickees Nez Perce - lived in plateau area between the plains and northwest, cold winters and moderate summers, ate buffalo, wore buck skins Hopi- lived in southwest desert area where it was hot and dry, near rivers they grew crops and others hunted, they used the dirt and sand to make pueblos
What animal was most important to the Plains Indians?
What is the Buffalo?
Many Native Americans lived in these large, wooden structures made from tree wood.
What are longhouses?
Buffalo jerky was made from this part of the animal.
What are muscles?
The special underground room used by the Southwest Native Americans for spiritual purposes.
What is a kiva?
How did the physical features of the land(Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands, Southwest), affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Those who lived in the Great Plains could travel after buffalo. The Eastern Woodlands allowed fishing and bountiful crops and the Southwest was hot, and required underground houses (pueblos).
This part of the buffalo was the best meat.
What is Buffalo tongue?