Definitions
What is maize?
corn
What were the "Three Sisters"?
Corn, squash, and beans
What is a multi-storied apartment building that is made of terraced stone and adobe?
Pueblos
What did people in the Northern area use to move supplies in the winter?
Toboggans
What is a cluster of families that claimed a common ancestor?
Clan
What are shamans?
medicine men
What did the nomadic tribes follow?
buffalo
Why did the Seminole in the Southeast build their homes on stilts?
They lived in swampy areas and the ground would be wet.
What did the Plains people use that had 2 long poles covered with rawhide and fixed to a saddle on an animal?
Travois
What does Hopi mean?
peaceful ones
What does nomadic mean?
Constantly on the move
What were the summers and winters like in the Northern area?
Winters were long filled with ice and snow; Summers were short.
What is a tall wall made from logs with sharpened tops?
Palisade
The Navajo and Apache were known as what? (two things)
hunters and warriors
By the year 900 AD, the Pueblo people were called what?
Cliff Dwellers
What is a mesa?
plateau or tabletop of land
Why were the individual groups in the Northern area so small?
Food was limited.
Some homes were constructed from wattle and daub. What is this?
Poles and mud or clay
What did people do at a potlatch ceremony? (Give at least 3 things.)
Eat, make speeches, tell stories, sing, dance, and played drums
The Northwest coast area ranged from__________?
South Alaska to northern California all along the Pacific Coast.
Northern cultural area was also called what?
Subarctic area
What did lacrosse players in the Southeast eat or wouldn't eat and why?
They would only eat the animals that had the characteristics that they needed in order to win, so they would eat a raccoon because it was fierce. They would NOT eat a rabbit because it was scared when attacked.
What did a totem pole record? (2 things)
Family Tree and Social Status
What was the purpose of the Iroquois Confederacy?
to reduce conflict and maintain unity
What were the two main groups in the Northeast area?
Algonquian speaking and Iroquoian speaking