Early Tools
A frame used by Native Americans to carry babies while they worked.
What are cradleboards?
The people of the Southwest that used their resources to survive the dry weather.
Who are the Navajos and Pueblos?
Shelters the Navajos built made of logs and poles covered with mud.
What are hogans?
The first Americans may have crossed this to come from Russia to Alaska after the Flood.
What is the Bering Strait?
The worldview that believes that there is only one God that created everything, and thus He alone should be worshipped.
What is the Christian worldview?
A Sioux process of soaking, drying, and stretching animal hides to preserve them.
What is tanning?
The people of the Southeast Woodlands that had a tradition of stickball, which was similar to lacrosse.
Who are the Cherokees?
Shelters built by the Iroquois that were shaped like a rectangle and had wooden poles covered with sheets of bark as a framework.
What are longhouses?
A people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, and creative arts.
What is culture?
Native Americans believe that this was closely connected to stories, dances, art, music, traditions, and nature.
What is religion?
A Chumash canoe built from cedar and redwood planks sealed with asphalt.
What are tomols?
The people of the Plateau that were named by French settlers and whose name means "pierced nose".
Who are the Nez Perces?
The style Cherokee homes were built to make small huts with sticks or rice cane plastered with mud.
What is wattle and daub?
People who look for and study artifacts to learn about the way ancient people lived.
What is an archaeologist?
The Navajo art that used the power of spirits to get rid of disease.
What is sand painting?
The material used to make clothing for the Nez Perces.
What is buckskin?
The people of the Northeast Woodlands that sometimes used wampum for money.
Who are the Iroquois?
A dome-shaped house made from blocks of snow and ice in the winter or sod in the summer built by the nomadic Inuits.
What is an igloo?
A feast (an event with lots of food) thrown by the Makahs that lasted several days to preserve the culture of the people of the Pacific Northwest.
What is a potlatch?
Every Native American cultural group believed that people, animals, and everything else in nature had this.
What are spirits?
This sharp stone points from spears and knives found across North America suggests that the earliest Americans were hunters.
What are Clovis points?
The people of California that made tomols and colorful cave paintings.
Who are the Chumash?
The stone and adobe shelters the Pueblos made that had many units and housed many families.
A special room in a pueblo that was set aside for religious activities.
What are Pueblos?
What is a kiva?
The command given by God for man to fill the earth and rule over it to create cultures.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A way for shamans (Native American religious leaders) to communicate with spirits through rituals.
What is shamanism?