The First Americans
Sea People of the Pacific Northwest
Peoples of the Southwest Desert
Farmers of the Great Plains
Eastern Woodland Peoples
Mound Builders of the Southeast & Clues to the Past
100
Approximately how many thousands of years ago did the first people come to the Americas?
What is around 12,000 years?
100
With this canoe, what types of animals would the Makah people hunt?
What are whales, sea otters, and seals?
100
What is the name of this hairstyle? Worn by Hopi women to signify that they were ready for marriage. 
What is the squash blossom hairstyle?
100
What was the main source of meat and clothing for those that lived on the Great Plains?
What is the buffalo?
100
The Iroquois invented the game being played below. They used basket-topped sticks, and games could last days and include up to a 1,000 players per team. Was used as a training exercise for warriors. 
What is Lacrosse?
100
This tribe was descended from the Mound Builders, lived in Georgia & Alabama along rivers, and were farmers, hunters, and traders!
Who are the Creek?
200
What were the two ways that people crossed to the new world?
DAILY DOUBLE
What was the name of the area in which one of the crossings occurred?
What is by land and by water?
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What is the Bering Land Bridge, the Bering Strait, or Beringia?
200
What is this object? Often used to mark graves and property, representing family spiritual ancestors. 
What is a totem pole?
200
Here is an example of a Pueblo home. What were the sun-baked clay bricks known as? From which the homes get their name. 
What is adobe?
200
While many tribes present in the Great Plains wandered to wherever hunting was present, there was one major tribe that stayed in one place year-round. What was their name?
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Along what major river did they live?
Who were the Mandan?
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What is the Missouri River?
200
Native Americans use ________ ________ which cleared underbrush, and created farmland and paths.
What are controlled burns?
200
What is the title for scientists who study ancient cultures?
Who are archaeologists?
300
This animal was still around when the first humans made their way to the Americas. What is it?
What is a giant sloth?
300
The Makah people lived in which present-day state?
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What was the name of their largest village?
Where is Washington?
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What is Ozette?
300
Due to the dry nature of the Southwest, Pueblo people would practice this type of agriculture - where seeds were planted deep in sandy soil with rock beneath to trap moisture.
What is dry farming?
300
Here is an example of traditional Mandan home; dome, soil-covered, and multi-family. What is it called? 
What is an Earth Lodge?
300
What are the "Three Sisters"?
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Describe how the plants supported one another?
What are corn, beans, and squash?
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What are the beans climbed the corn and the squash shaded the soil to keep it moist?
300
These archeological findings in the dirt, reveal the size and shape of old Iroquois longhouses in the Northeast.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the name of this major archaeological site found in the Southwest?
What are post hold molds?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Mesa Verde?
400
What word can be best defined as a way of life in which people do not have a permanent home - they move from place to place?
What is nomadic?
400
With what type of wood did the Makah most often work with?
What is cedar?
400
These dolls were given to Pueblo girls to learn traditions. Men wore masked versions. They represented spirits of nature and would be used in ceremonies to pray for good harvests. 
What are Kachina?
400
Native Americans in the Great Plains used this tool on the back of dogs to carry supplies. 
What is a travois?
400
This image shows an example of a healer wearing a carved wooden mask to scare away illness spirits. What was the group known as? 
What is the False Face Society?
400
The Green Corn Festival was a late-summer celebration for new corn and a new year. One of the traditions involved the priests tending the sacred fire on the temple mound. Explain the steps in the ceremony.
What is the old fire was put (after having burned for the entire year), a new fire was lit (to symbolize the new harvest and the new year), and then women carried embers home to light their families fires?
500
What tribe's mythology had the first man emerging from soil?
Who were the Lakota?
500
What is the word for a ceremonial feast (for weddings or events) that would reinforce community bonds? Gifts would show one's wealth and status.
What is a potlatch?
500
To the Pueblo, corn was a symbol of life. There were six colors: yellow, blue, red, white, purple, and gray. What does each color represent?
What is yellow (north), blue (west), red (south), white (east), purple (sky; above), and gray (underworld; below)?
500
This multi-day religious ceremony of the Mandan people would involve buffalo dances, stories surrounding tribal history, and painful physical trials to showcase courage and self-sacrifice.
What is Okipa?
500
What were the 5 nations of the Iroquois Confederacy? 
What are the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Cayuga?
500
Two types of dating help scientists determine the age of Native American dwellings, artifacts, and people & animals. What are they, and how do they work?
What is tree-ring dating is where you count annual rings from the trunk of a tree to find wood's age, and thus surrounding structures?
What is radiocarbon (C-14) dating which measures decay in once-living material to determine age?