Early North America
Native American Regions
Customs & Celebrations
Native American Culture
Native American Cooperation
100
Archaeologists believe the first people came across this land bridge from Asia to North America more than 10,000 years ago.
What is the Bering Strait?
100
This region is often called the home of the "Showoffs." It is known for its cold and wet climate, an abundance of resources, and a diet based on salmon and sea life.
What is the Pacific Northwest Region?
100
These dolls were often used to teach children about the different spirits of the Hopi culture.
What are Kachina dolls?
100
Most Native Americans did not have a system of writing so stories and customs were often handed down using this.
What is oral language?
100
This is when you have more than what you need.
What is a surplus?
200
People that don't have a permanent home and are constantly moving to find new resources and survive.
What are nomads?
200
This region is known for its abundance of trees, great farming ability, temperate climate, and longhouse homes.
What is the Eastern Woodlands Region?
200
These tall wooden poles in the Pacific Northwest were carved with animal figures that represented family ancestors.
What are totem poles?
200
This is a group's stories or customs.
What is folklore?
200

Native Americans in many regions had a staple diet of corn, squash, and beans. These three crops were known as this.

What are the "Three Sisters?"

300
These are the reasons Native Americans settled near water.
What are fresh water, water for crops, food source, and transportation?
300
The tribes in this region are mostly nomadic. The region is known for its temperate climate, tepees, and use of bison.
What is The Plains Region?
300
This round partially underground Pueblo meeting place in the Desert Southwest region was used for ceremonies and special occasions.
What is a kiva?
300
A set of activities done for a special purpose.
What is a ceremony?
300
A system of organizing resources, such as money and goods.
What is an economy?
400
This is the reason the first Americans most likely made the trip across the Bering Strait.
What is chasing their food.
400
This region is known for its beautiful textiles and pottery, its legendary cliff dwellings, and its use of irrigation to grow crops in its arid region.
What is The Desert Southwest Region?
400
A special festival in the Pacific Northwest at which a feast and gifts are given as gifts to guests.
What is a potlatch?
400
A system of faith or worship?
What is a religion?
400
The Iroquois Confederacy was a system of government that sent representatives from each tribe to vote on land use, trade, and war. The people sent to represent their tribe were known as these.
What are sachems?
500
The development of this allowed the first Americans to end their nomadic lifestyle because it gave them a steady source of food.
What is agriculture?
500
Tribes around North America had to adapt to their surroundings. Their lifestyle often depended on the three traits of their region.
What are the climate, geography, and resources of a region?
500
A woven belt with beads used by Eastern Woodlands Indians as money or to record important political events.
What is wampum?
500
These were the three main purposes of American Indian celebrations and ceremonies.
What are nature, social purposes, and religious reasons?
500

The system of exchanging goods without the use of money.

What is the barter system?

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