Native American Nation & Culture
This major confederation of Native Americans lived in present-day Alabama and is also known by another name.
What is the Creek Nation (also called the Muscogee)?
This term describes a social group of Native Americans sharing common ancestry, culture, and leadership.
What is a tribe?
These ancient Native American peoples constructed large earthen mounds for ceremonial, religious, and residential purposes.
Who were the Mound Builders?
This large inlet on the Gulf Coast was where early European explorers first arrived in Alabama.
What is Mobile Bay?
These were military leaders who explored and conquered territories in the Americas for Spain.
Who were Spanish conquistadors?
Name two Native American nations besides the Creek that inhabited Alabama or the southeastern United States.
What are the Cherokee and the Choctaw?
This is a family group within a tribe that traces ancestry to a common ancestor.
What is a clan?
This advanced civilization flourished in the Mississippi River valley and demonstrated incredible engineering skills.
What is the Mississippian Culture?
This major waterway flows through central Alabama and was crucial for transportation, food, and settlement.
What is the Alabama River?
This is an agreement between groups to work together for common goals.
What is an alliance?
This is the practice of passing down history, stories, and knowledge through spoken word rather than written records.
What is oral tradition?
This is the exchange of goods and services without using money.
What is barter?
This occurred when Native Americans and Europeans shared knowledge and customs with each other.
What is cultural exchange?
This mountain range in northeastern Alabama influenced settlement patterns and provided natural boundaries.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is a formal agreement between nations or groups that often establishes peace or defines territorial boundaries.
What is a treaty?
Native Americans in Alabama grew three crops together because they helped each other grow. Name all three.
What are corn, beans, and squash (the Three Sisters)?
This is a fortified military settlement built for defense and control of territory.
What is a fort?
Name one thing Native Americans taught Europeans and one thing Europeans introduced to Native Americans.
What are (Native Americans taught: local plants, medicines, survival skills) and (Europeans introduced: metal tools, firearms, horses)?
This is the process of establishing settlements and control over a new territory by a foreign power.
What is colonization?
This term describes ongoing armed conflict between groups or nations over territory, resources, or power.
What is war?
This is a union of tribes or nations joined together for mutual support and protection
What is a confederacy?
This is the right of a nation or people to govern themselves independently.
What is sovereignty?
These became important centers where different cultures met and exchanged goods.
What are trading posts?
This is a group of soldiers stationed at a fort to defend it.
What is a garrison?
This is the forced relocation of Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
What is removal?