Native American Homes
Native American Groups
Vocabulary
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This kind of home was built by the Southwest Indians. It was made of mud bricks and stood several stories high.

What is a pueblo?

100

Tribes such as Cherokee and Seminole are in this culture group. They ate fish and small animals. They made their clothes from plant fibers. Their homes were called "chickees."

What is Southeast?

100

Our surroundings made up of the landscape and climate

environment

100
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.
100

Name a tribe that lived in the Great Plains. They ate maize and buffalo. They used buffalo hides for their clothing, as well as for their tipis.

What is Pawnee, Apache, ?

200

This kind of home was built by the Seminole Indians. It had a raised platform, palm leaf roof and had open sides. 

What is a chickee?

200

This tribe lived in the Arctic Region, They ate mostly fish, seals, and whales. They made warm clothes from animal skins. 

What is Inuit?

200

Groups of people who share similar cultures - tribes

societies

200
How does the environment affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Native Americans could only use the resources that were in its environment. For example, the Kwakiutl used the Pacific Ocean for food and forests for clothing and shelter.
200
A broad, falt area of high land.
What is a plateau?
300

A cone-shaped tent, usually covered with animal skins, used as a home, especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.

What is a tipi?

300

Tribes such as the Hopi and Pueblo are in this culture group. They ate beans, pumpkins, and rabbits. The tribes that lived close to the Colorado River farmed, while the ones further from the river hunted. Their clothes were made from wool and animal skins. Their houses were called pueblos.

Southwest?

300

A powerful political organization living in upstate New York made up of five tribes: Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca.  Later the Tuscarora joined.

Iroquois League

300
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villiages, while others remained nomads?
Some groups like the Pawnee had to travel with the food. The Pawnee followed the buffalo from place to place for food.
300

weathered mountain peaks stretching from Maine to Alabama

Appalachian Mountains

400

A temporary house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.

What is an igloo?

400

Tribes in this culture group were nomadic hunters and gatherers.  They made easy to transport shelters out of bison hides. 

What is the Plains?

400

The study of the past using artifacts

archaeology

400
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?
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
400

gives the most detail of state and national borders and major cities

What is a political map?

500

Many Kwakiutls lived in these large wooden structures designed to keep them dry in their temperate rainforest environment.

What are plankhouses?

500

The Kwakiutl tribe hunted and gathered their food which was plentiful in their forested and coastal environment.  

What is the Northwest?

500

land mass that Paleo Indians used to migrate from Asia to North America, exposed during the Last Ice Age due to low sea level

What is Beringia?

500
How did the physical features (Great Plains, Atlantic Coastal Plains, Great Basin), affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
The Pawnee lived in the Great Plains where they could travel after buffalo. The Seminole lived along the Atlantic Coastal Plains in the warm muggy areas. The Nez Perce lived in the Great Basin with the plateau.
500

This map's main purpose is to show specific data or statistics.

Thematic map

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