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Plains Indians
Paleo Indians
Woodland Natives
Vocabulary
100

How the people of a civilization made, traded, bought and sold goods and resources

E is for economy

100

their most important resource 

buffalo

100

Used this for hunting 

wood spears and arrows with sharpened stones

100

lived in this area 

great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean 

100

The frozen land bridge the first natives used to come to the Americas

Beringia 

200

Where the civilization was located and how the environment affected it

G is for geography

200

Plains Indians lived in this area of North America

great plains between the Great lakes and the rocky mountains 

200

made these to preserve food

clay pots

200

lived in this type of home that housed entire families 

longhouse

200

The name for hunter-gathers who hunted food by moving from place to place

nomads 

300

Their beliefs, gods, religious practices, and spiritual ideals 

R is for religion 

300

lived in this type of house, used because of a lack of resources 

tee pee

300

Name one of the two areas we talked about where the Paleo Indians lived 

Ohio River Valley and Southwest US 

300

carved this out of logs

canoes

300

known as the three sisters 

corn, squash, and beans 

400

Important inventions, discoveries, buildings, art, writing, or other accomplishments 

A is for achievements 

400

received this from the Spanish, which helped them hunt buffalo 

horses 

400

lived in homes made of sticks, bark, and willows that were this shape

cone

400

became the leader of the group unified to defend against other nations 

Hiawatha

400

believing in many gods

polythestic

500

How the people are organized into classes, roles of different groups, and family structures 

S is for Social Structure 

500

A unique way they hunted buffalo 

drove them off cliffs 

500

often buried their dead in these 

large burial mounds 

500

the group formed to share resources and unite against other nations

Iroquois Confederation 

500

the belief that everything has a soul 

animism

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