Native American Homes
Native American Groups
Vocabulary
Essential Questions
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This kind of home was built by the Hopi Indians. It was made of stone and mud and stood several stories high.
What is a pueblo?
100
This tribe was from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They ate fish and small animals. They were the first tribe to meet the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
100
This is a synonym for different.
What is distinct?
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 Lakota Sioux traveled so they could find buffalo to eat and survive.
100
This tribed 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?
200
This round home was built by the Wampanoag Indians. It was made of grass and tree bark.
What is a wetu?
200
This tribe lives in the Southwest and has the largest reservation in the U.S. They eat mutton, fry bread, corn, beans, and squash. They made their clothes from animal skins and porcupine quills.
Who are the Navajo?
200
This is another word that means almost the same.
What is similar?
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 Wampanoag used the Pacific Ocean for food and forests for clothing and shelter.
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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, such as the Lakota Sioux.
What is a tipi?
300
This tribe was from the southwest. They ate beans, pumpkins, and rabbits. They were farmers. Their clothes were made from wool and animal skins. Their houses were called pueblos.
Who are the Hopi?
300
Articles made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is pottery?
300
Why did some Native American tribes create permanent villages, while others remained nomads?
Some groups like the Lakota Sioux followed the buffalo from place to place for food. Other groups like the Hopi stayed in one place and farmed.
300
Give me 3 facts you learned during your research project.
What is show the teacher.
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This home is made of a special wood framework packed with clay into a domed shape, with the door facing east.
What is a hogan?
400
This tribe lives on the Great Plains. They hunted buffalo and lived in tipis.
Who are the Lakota Sioux?
400
Another name for Indian.
What is Native American?
400
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?
Navajo - Desert southwest, hot and dry, raised sheep for food and grew the "three sisters" corn, beans, and squash. Lakota Sioux- grasslands, hunted buffalo, lived in tipis. Wampanoag-Live near the sea and forest. Ate fish and clams. Lived in wetus. Hopi- live in the southwest desert area where it was hot and dry, near rivers they grew crops and others hunted, they used the clay to make pueblos.
400
What animal did the Hopie help herd?
Sheep for wool clothing
500
This home was made with ice blocks.
What is an igloo?
500
This tribe was from the northwest. They had access to the Pacific Ocean, so they ate a lot of fish and whales. They also had access to huge forests with lots of trees. They used these trees to make clothing as well as their plankhouses.
What is the Kwakiutl?
500
This the line where the land meets the sky.
What is a horizon?
500
How did the physical features (Great Plains, Atlantic Coast, Southwest), affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
The Lakota Sioux live on the Great Plains where they could hunt buffalo. The Wampanoag live along the Atlantic Coast. The Navajo and Hopi live in the Southwest.
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In what type of shape were Pawnee houses built?
They were built in DOME shapes for the villiages where they covered it with strips of grassy earth to keep the homes hot or cool. The tipis were in a a-fremae shape for travelling for buffalo.
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