Vocabulary
Spring and Summer
Fall and Winter
The Tribe
Customs
100
The leader of the tribe was called the a. Sachem b. pniese
What is Sachem?
100
Mom would plant the three sisters in the spring. What are the "three sisters" crops?
What is corn, beans, and squash?
100
During the fall your family moved into the ____________. a. the mountains b. the woods
What is the woods?
100
What did the Wampanoag people use to make clothes?
What is animal skins and the furs?
100
The people would give the sachem____________ to tell him that they were pleased with his work!
What is wampum?
200
This type of home was built during the wintertime and housed a lot of people.
What is longhouse?
200
The Wampanoag people would move during the springtime to the ___________________. a. the sea shore b. the woods
What is the sea shore?
200
During the winter the families would be inside the longhouse. In the longhouse they would ____________.
What is tell stories?
200
If a Wampanoag man wanted a copper bead but didn't need squirrel furs, how might he get it?
What is trade with other people from another village?
200
Today the Wampanoag tribe celebrate Cranberry Day where they pick _____________, sing songs, and tell stories.
What is pick cranberries?
300
A clam shell that was purple and white was used to make necklaces and beadwork. It was give to the sachem. This was called ______________.
What is wampum?
300
What are some animals or crops you might catch or harvest during the springtime?
What is strawberries, nuts, roots, berries, eel, fish, clams, lobster.
300
Why would your father bury food in the ground during the fall?
What is to store food for later?
300
Name one animal that your mother might make a blanket out of.
What is seals, black bears, raccoons, river otters, foxes, squirrels, beavers, muskrats, or wolves?
300
The only person allowed to wear antlers on top of his head was the _________________. a. medicine man b. council
What is medicine man?
400
A giant festival where the tribal people sang, danced, ate food, and dressed up to celebrate their culture was called a ________________ a. festival b. the great spirit c. a powwow
What is powwow?
400
Describe how to make a wetu.
What is take saplings and bend them together. Use vines and animal parts to attach the trees, then cover the outside with bark or grass mat walls.
400
What does the word harvest mean?
What is gather the crops?
400
One of the game the Wampanoag people played with quohog shells and bowls was called?
What is hubbub?
400
How would you make a mishoon?
What is put a tree trunk on fire and then put it out, scrape out the ash to make the seat?
500
What is one way the Wampanoag people showed respect to nature?
What is prayed for the animals, used all the animal, celebrated with festivals, thanked the Earth for letting them use parts of it, took only when they needed to, sang and danced, etc
500
During the spring and summer the Wampanoag people wouldn't wear moccasins (shoes) because _______________.
What is the weather was nice and so they didn't need to kill an animal to make shoes that they didn't need?
500
Name some jobs or chores done during the fall?
What is roll up mats, bury food, harvest crops, build longhouses, move to the woods, dry vegetables, etc
500
Name a job of the children either boy or girl.
What is watch parents, learn how to track animals, learn about working in the field, helping take care of little kids?
500
The giant who fell asleep on Cape Cod and woke up to empty his shoes on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket was called?
What is Moshop?
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