Vocabulary
Objects made by humans
What are artifacts?
This region is known for its icy, cold and harsh climate
What is the Artic and subartic region?
What are the Inuits?
What are the Chipewyans?
A large land-animal that the First Americans hunted
What is a Woolly Mammoth?
This type of home is shaped like a cone & traditionally made from wooden poles & coverings sewn from the hides of bison. The plains tribes are known to have lived in them.
What is a teepee?
The Anasazi built large buildings using this material. Also known as sundried brick.
What is adobe?
Between 100,000 and 10,000 years ago, thick sheets of ice called ________, covered almost one third of the Earth.
What are glaciers?
Native Americans from the ______ region cut down tall cedar trees to build houses, canoes, and totem poles
What is the Northwest coast region?
3 sisters is a nickname for what 3 crops that grow well together?
What are Corn, beans, and squash?
The Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest would usually carve what into the totem poles?
What are carved human figures, animals, and supernatural spirits?
The study of evidence left by early people
What is Archeology?
Scientist believe that the glacial period opened a ______ ________ between Asia and the Americas.
What is a land bridge?
What did the Anasazi and Hoboken do to adapt to their environments?
The Hohokam dug networks of irrigation ditches so they could farm the desert land. The Anasazi also irrigated the desert in order to farm.
Native Americans from the Great Plains, like the Sioux, primarily hunted what animal?
What are buffalo?
_______ is the name of a celebration for when the corn ripened in the fall.
What is the Green Corn Ceremony?
The process in which water is taken from one place and sent to where it is needed.
What is irrigation?
The Anasazi lived in the _______ region, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet
What is the Southwest?
extra point: Four Corners region
The Iroquois natives were from what region?
What is The Eastern Woodlands?
What is the common theme among the different religions between the Native American tribes?
What is the spirit of nature?
What role did women play in Iroquois culture?
Women could help choose clan and tribal leaders, and women could help remove those leaders from power if they didn’t work well.
A ceremonial dinner, or party, to show off one’s wealth
What is a potlatch?
This region is known for its milder temperatures, abundant rainfall, and food supplies
What is the Northwest Coast region?
How did nomadic Native American groups often feed their families?
They were hunter gatherers and moved often in search of food.
The Pueblo Natives would often have _____ dancers, at their festivals and ceremonies.
What are Kachina dancers?
The Inuit people would wear clothing made of what animal skin?
What is seal skin?