Lesson 1: Early Natives
__________________ were groups of nomadic people who hunted wild animals for food and/or gathered up wild berries.
Hunter-Gatherers
The ________people have inhabited the southwestern region for thousands of years.
Pueblo
People such as the Tlingit used trees to carve ____ ______. These were used to tell a clans history. The order and each animal represented a different chapter in their history.
Totem poles
Most were nomadic, following the sacred ______.
buffalo
One thing that is uniquely them was their reliance on _____.
seasons
The _____ culture was signified by huge stone statues, temples and a vast trade system across Mexico
Olmec
Pueblo homes were built like ________, large at the bottom and smaller at the top.
Pyramids
One notable resource used was _____, which was used in just about everything, but they only took what they needed.
Wood
Their main form of housing was _______, made of wood poles and buffalo hides.
Teepee
In the ______, the soil would be just right for planting crops.
Spring
Who created hieroglyphs and what are they?
The Mayan, a type of ancient writing using pictures carved into their buildings
There was often a special underground floor known as a _______here they would hold rituals or ceremonies.
Kivas
These people believed every living thing had _____ and should be respected. Thus only taking what they needed.
rights
Sometimes the nomadic tribes would find a settled tribe and a ____ ____ would occur.
trade fair
A farming method where cutting and burning of the forest around them to use the ashes as fertilizer
slash and burn
Who were the two groups of early desert people?
Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam
Navajo practiced _______ or “walking in beauty,” meaning balance with the Earth.
Hozho
A _______ is a type of ceremony, where it was common for guest to receive gifts from the hosts while the host would earn respect from the community.
potlatch
List one role each family member had:
-men
-boys
-women
-girls
The men were in charge of educating the boys as well as hunting and keeping the families history.
While the boys played games that would sharpen their skills for when they became the men.
The Women were in charge of educating the girls as well as setting up and taking down teepees. They also farmed and prepared meals.
Girls were tasked with learning from their mother as well as helping with setting up and taking down teepees.
Name the Three Sisters crops.
corn, beans, squash
People crossed over a land bridge connecting Alaska to Russia. It was called _________.
Beringia
The Apache people, like the Navajo, are thought to have come from the North. However, Apache ___ _______ states it was the opposite that the people from the north came from them.
Oral History
What is the name of the tribe who lived in arctic areas, making clothes from animal hides, living in igloos or underground, and they developed their own sharing ecomony?
Inuit
Raids where the interaction between tribes went bad could end in a _________ ______, where a fight took place and a coup stick was used.
counting coup
Confederacy.
White (peace) towns made laws, and held conquered groups,
Red towns is were war was declared, military action was planned, and they met with the enemy.