Location
This cultural region includes the area between the Appalachians and the Atlantic Ocean and stretches from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico
Eastern Woodlands
Many Southeastern tribes grew three main crops often called the "Three Sisters." Name two of them.
What are corn (maize) and beans? — also squash)
Algonquian tribes in the Northeast commonly lived in oval structures made of bent poles and covered with bark or hides. What are these dwellings called?
What are wigwams?
Two major Northeastern language families named in the text are the Algonquian and this other family made up of five nations in a confederacy.
What is the Iroquoian / Iroquois?
The "Five Civilized Tribes" label in U.S. history commonly refers to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and which other tribe?
What is the Seminole?
This region is a large, arid grassland between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River where many tribes followed buffalo herds
Great Plains
Plains tribes depended on this large animal for food, tools, clothing, and shelter materials.
What is the buffalo / bison?
The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) typically lived in long, shared wooden homes that housed multiple families. What are these called?
What are longhouses?
The Navajo refer to themselves by this name meaning "the people.
What is Diné?
Many Mississippian settlements centered their towns around this open area used for religious and social gatherings.
What is a plaza?)
This dry, desert region includes deep canyons and was home to groups like the Hohokam, Ancestral Puebloans, Navajo, and Apache.
Southwestern region / the Southwest
The Hohokam built large-scale systems to bring water to crops. What agricultural feature did they dig to irrigate fields?
What are canals?
The Navajo lived in dome-shaped wood-and-mud houses with doors facing east. What is the Navajo name for these structures?
What are hogans?
Plains peoples used a common visual means of communication across language groups for trade, storytelling, and ceremony. What is it called?
What is Plains Indian Sign Language?)
This large Mississippian city had up to 120 earthen mounds and became a major trade and ceremonial center (site name).
What is Cahokia?
Cahokia, the largest Mississippian mound site, is located near the confluence of which three rivers?
the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers
The Pueblo peoples celebrated a seasonal ceremony focused on one important crop. Name the crop.
What is corn / maize?
Many Great Plains nomadic groups lived in portable cone-shaped dwellings made of poles and hides. What are these called?
What are tipis / tepees?)
The term "Anasazi" has been used for the Ancestral Puebloans but comes from a Navajo word meaning what?
What is "ancient enemies"?)
A ritual dance that spread among Plains tribes in the 19th century aimed to restore the dead and resist westward expansion; name it.
What is the Ghost Dance?
The Pacific Northwest tribes relied heavily on which marine resource that was central to their diet and ceremonial life?
Salmon
Many coastal and Northwest tribes used a resource that was processed into beads and also used as currency by some California tribes (Pomo). Name the mineral.
What is magnesite?
Some Ancestral Puebloan people constructed dwellings built into cliff faces. Name a famous cliff dwelling site mentioned in the text.
What is Cliff Palace?
The Iroquois Confederacy's oral constitution was recorded symbolically on belts made from what material?
What is wampum?
Potlatches are ceremonial gift-giving feasts used by Northwest Coast peoples. State two social functions of a potlatch described in the text
What are demonstrating a leader's wealth/power and commemorating events like births, deaths, adoptions, or weddings?