Culture
What can we learn about American Indians by studying their culture?
Info about their art, languages, ideas, beliefs, history, and tools and skills.
How did American Indians meet their basic needs?
They hunted, fished, planted and made clothes and other items necessary for survival.
Who gained wilderness skills?
Children
What do the Kachina dolls look like? (According to the text).
Dolls and action figures.
Customs
A way of life
What type of shelter did the American Indians live in?
teepees.
What are some custom or traditions that American Indians still practice today?
Creating traditional craftworks or meals.
Who fished and hunted?
Men (women sometimes helped)
What is a Kachina Doll?
Tradition
A custom or belief passed down through generations.
How did the American Indian groups DIFFER in the in the way they found food?
Some mainly farmed, others mainly hunted and fished.
What does Folklore mean?
The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
Who planted crops?
Women
What religious custom did many American Indians practice before a hunt?
They asked spirits for permission to kill an animal or catch a fish.
Ancestor
A person whom one is descended and who lived several generations ago.
What was a cultural aspect of the Indian Groups in the Eastern Woodlands. (Think hair!)
Mohawks!
Why do people today want to learn about American Indian Folklore?
To learn about customs, beliefs, and stories of the past.
Who gathered seeds, nuts, and fruit?
Women
Southeast and Woodland groups expressed their beliefs how?
Gave thanks to spirits at the Green Corn Ceremony.
Aspect
Particular part or feature of something
What is Potlatch?
Big feasts that were held to honor people.
Why would folktales passed down by American Indians in the Eastern Woodlands be different from ones passed down by the American Indians in the Southwest?
They lived so far apart they had different experiences and so they had different stories.
Who cleared land for planting?
Men
Why did Hopi want to connect to natural forces such as sun, wind, and storms?
The natural forces affected whether the Hopi would survive in nature.
Maintain
To keep something going without change.