Time Periods
9500BC-8000BC
Paleo Period
What does Nomadic mean?
Traveling and having no set home.
What was the name of the items shaped like human heads and animals that were made out of clay?
Effigy Pots
The Osage People belonged to one of two groups called what?
Earth or Sky People
What were Quapaw homes called?
Longhouses
8000BC-500BC
Archaic Period
The Plum Bayou Culture was known for building what structure for rituals and burials?
Earthen Mounds
Caddo society was organized into family units called?
Farmsteads
What was different about the Tunica Tribe from the other native tribes?
The men were responsible for tending to the crops.
True or False- The Caddo people decided that they wanted to leave Arkansas for Oklahoma
False
500BC-900AD
Woodland Period
Mississippian Indians would store their food where?
Underground
Where did the Quapaw Indians live?
The Delta
Which Native Tribe hosted the “Green Corn Ceremony”
Cherokee
What Native Indian tribe was described as “tall, handsome, and peaceful”?
Quapaw
900AD-1541AD
Mississippian Period
Which tool improved the Woodland’s chance of getting enough meat to sustain a family unit?
What does the word Quapaw mean?
“The people who live downstream”
What is Animism?
Belief that everything has a spirit
Where were the Caddo Indians found in Arkansas?
Southwest
What does Paleo mean?
Old
One of the most important tools was a tool called the __________, which Archaic Indians used to help throw their spears farther and faster, allowing them to hunt larger prey.
Atlatl
Which Native Tribe lived near the Arkansas and Missouri Border in the Ozark Mountains?
Osage
What kind of system did the Native Americans live in?
Matriarchal
What item would the Woodland Indians Place at the edge of a territory to signify war?
Red Club