Origin Stories
This explains how Earth and its people came to be.
What is an origin story?
Most scientists agree that the first people in North America came from this continent.
What is Asia?
Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, vegetation and minerals.
What is a natural resource?
These were used to fill with air to make floats.
What are sealskins?
A picture that represents an important event or idea.
What is a pictograph?
This tribe's people believed they came from inside the Earth.
Who are the Hopis?
This is the movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new place in another country.
What is migration?
Everything that surrounds a given area.
What is an environment?
In the winter, American Indians in Northern Alaska built these houses out of show and ice.
What are igloos?
A pictoral record of a whole year beginning with the first snowfall.
What is a winter count?
This creature found a hole at the top of Earth, traveled around, and returned to report that life above them was very different.
What is a mockingbird?
People migrating from Siberia were thought to be following these animals.
What are mammoths? (bison and caribou will also be accepted)
This environment had grass, but lacked trees and bushes because there was not enough rain for them to survive.
What are the grasslands?
To keep warm, American Indians of Northern Alaska dressed in this.
What are animal skins and furs?
American Indian tribe who drew pictures on animal hides to record history.
Who are the Lakotas?
This is how the people were able to get out of the Earth's center.
What is they grew sturdy plants that reached to the Earth's crust and climbed them like a ladder.
This is a long period of time during which large areas of the Earth's surface is covered with thick sheets of ice.
What is an ice age?
This environment was very dry. People living here often had to dig wells and ditches to get water for drinking or raising crops.
What is the desert?
Natural resources were even used to make snow goggles from these materials.
What is bone or wood?
This famous event from 1833 was a commonly drawn on animal hides.
What is the "Year the Stars Fell" or a meteor shower.
Place where tribes would meet to share or reenact stories.
What is a kiva?
Scientists believed that there once was a land bridge across this body of water.
What is the Bering Strait?
This environment is near the North Pole. Huge sheets of ice covered the land for most of the year.
What are the Arctic Ice Fields?
Indian group that is also known as Eskimos.
Who are the Inuits?
A record of an event created by someone who was actually there.
What is a primary source?