Name That Tribe!
Who inhabited what is now Alaska and Northern Canada (the Canadian Shield)?
The Inuit
What type of clothing did the Iroquois wear?
Mostly made from deer skin
Decorated with beads and feathers
What types of homes did the Kwakiuh live in?
Housing - plankhouses
Community homes built of wood planks
Several families lived in one home
What food did the Iroquois farm?
What food did the Iroquois hunt?
Farmed: raised variety of foods including Three sisters: corn, squash, beans
Hunted and fished
What is the climate like where the Pueblo lived?
Desert (hot and dry)
Who lived in cliffs or mountains in what is now Arizona and New Mexico?
(Basin and Range)
The Pueblo
What kind of clothes did the Pueblo wear?
Animal skins
Wool fabric woven from the wool of sheep they raised.
Silver and beaded jewelry
What type of housing did the Iroquois have?
longhouses made of saplings and bark
Community homes
Several families live in one home
Each had their own section and firepit
What kind of food did the Inuit hunt?
What kind of food did the Inuit gather?
Hunting - walrus, seals, whales, caribou
Gathering - nuts, fruits in short growing season
What is the climate like where the Inuit lived? (Canadian Shield)
Temperatures rarely rise above freezing (cold...really, really cold.)
Who lived in what is now Washington State and parts of Canada?
(Coastal Ridge)
The Kwakiuh
What kind of clothing did the Lakota wear?
Mostly made from deer skin
Decorated with beads and feathers
What kind of homes did the Inuit live in?
Sod Homes and Igloos
What kind of food did the Lakota hunt?
What kind of food did the Lakota gather?
Hunted
Primarily bison, deer, other game
Gathered nuts, berries, roots
What was the climate like for the Iroquois?
Mostly mild: cold winters, temperate summers
What tribe inhabited Northeast North America in dense woodland (Appalachian Mountains, Interior Lowlands, and Coastal Plain)
The Iroquois
What kinds of clothing did the Inuit wear?
Animal skins
Fur turned to the inside
Feathers for insulation
Multiple waterproof layers
What kind of housing did the Lakota live in?
teepees
Made of several long wooden poles covered with a buffalo hide cover. The cover often had family history painted on it.
Teepees were easily taken down, moved and put back up
What kind of food did the Pueblo hunt?
What kind of food did the Pueblo farm?
Hunted - deer, rabbit, other meat animals
Farmed - raised sheep, planted gardens (3 sisters)
What is the climate like where the Kwakiuh lived? (Coastal Ridge)
Mild and rainy
What tribe inhabited the Great Plains area but often wintered in the lower portion of the Rockies? They were nomadic.
The Lakota
What type of clothing did the Kwakiuh wear?
Animal skins and fabric woven from tree bark fibers
Large hats to shield from rain
What types of homes did the Pueblo live in?
Pueblos made of adobe (mix of clay and straw)
Series of apartments stacked on top of each other
Naturally cooling
Ladders could be pulled up
What type of food did the Kwakiuh primarily eat?
What did they hunt?
What did they gather?
Heavy on fish and seafood
Hunted for game animals - beaver, caribou, squirrel
Gathered berries, nuts, roots
What was the climate like where the Lakota lived?
The weather is extreme from high temps to well below freezing.