Animals found abundantly in Idaho rivers and streams used for food by Native Americans.
What are fish?
100
A Native American shelter that is easy to move around made from sticks and animal skins.
What is a tipi?
100
A way to communicate using your arms and hands.
What is sign language?
100
In the past, Native American children did not have to attend here, where children learn how to read and write and do math.
What is school?
100
The Native American tribe that lives near the Snake River, which was named after them. It is the tribe that has lived in Idaho the longest.
What are the Shoshone?
200
A container made by Native American women to hold water and cook food.
What is a basket?
200
Most Native American clothing was made from this material.
What is buckskin?
200
Native Americans did not have the use of this animal for transportation until around 1700.
What is a horse?
200
Native American boys helped with this task.
What is hunting and fishing?
200
The tribe that came from Oregon and lived near the Shoshone Indians. Their modern name comes from Panakwate or maybe from the way they wore their hair.
What are the Bannock?
300
Natural resources the Native Americans used to make tools.
What are stone, wood and bones?
300
A Native American shelter used in the winter that was "added on" to when a family member got married.
What is a longhouse?
300
This form of transportation was made by hollowing out a log.
What is a canoe?
300
Native American girls helped with this task.
What is cooking and caring for children?
300
A Native American tribe known for breeding the Appaloosa horse. They call themselves "Ne-Mee-Poo" which means "We the People".
What are the Nez Perce?
400
Native American food made from meat, berries and melted fat.
What is pemmican?
400
A Native American structure used for religious purposes where water was poured over hot rocks to create steam.
What is a sweat lodge?
400
A way for horses and dogs to carry a load, made from two sticks and an animal skin.
What is a travois?
400
Native American children did this to help them prepare for tasks they did later in life.
What are chores?
400
A Native American tribe that was given their modern name by French-Canadian traders that tried to buy furs from them for a very low price. Their name means "Heart of an Awl".
What are the Coeur D'Alene?
500
Tools used by Native Americans to grind camas and bitterroot into powder.
What are mortar and pestle or mano and metate?
500
This group of Native Americans were the members of the tribe that prepared the animal skins for shelter and clothing by scraping them. They also moved the tipis when the tribe moved places.
What are Native American women?
500
Pictures and symbols scratched into a rock with a stone.
What are petroglyphs?
500
Stories adult Native Americans would tell their children about people and animals.
What are myths and legends?
500
The smallest Native American tribe in Idaho. They live in the far north, and many lived in Canada. They were sometimes called the "River People."