Northwest Coast and California-Intermountain Region
Southwest & Plateau
Great Plains & Eastern Woodlands
Southeast
Vocabulary
100
What were the three tribes that lived in the Northwest Coast?
Tlingits, Chinooks, and Kwakiutls
100
What were the two tribes that lived in the Southwest?
The Apaches and the Hopis (the Anasazis who were ancestors of the Hopis)
100

What are four tribes that lived in the Great Plains region?

Cheyennes, Pawnees, Comanches, and Dakotas

100
Name the three tribes that lived in the Southeast region.
Creeks, Choctaws, Seminoles
100
Define artifact
Human-made objects that help us understand how the people who made them lived.
200
What was the biggest source of food for the American Indians of the Northwest Coast?
Fish, more specifically salmon
200
What is a pueblo?
An apartment building made out of stone and adobe.
200

What was considered so sacred to the Western Dakotas of the Great Plains?

Buffalo

200
Describe the climate in the Southeast
It had both wet and dry areas, but overall the weather was usually hot.
200
What does it mean to be "nomadic"?
They moved from place to place as changes in seasons made food available in different areas.
300
What did the Kwakiutls use to make rope?
Cedar bark
300
What was one way the Yakima (of the Plateau) adapted to the harsh climate?
They built their homes partly underground.
300

Name three things the Dakotas used buffalo for.

They used buffalo hide or skin to make their teepees, blankets to wear in winter, and shields out of buffalo hide.

300
What were their homes called? What were they made out of?
Chickees; wooden platforms three feet above ground.
300
Define culture
A way of living
400
Why were the American Indians that lived in the California-Intermountain Region nomadic?
Because of the extreme heat and cold and limited rainfall, few plants and animals lived there, which means the American Indians had to follow their food in order to survive.
400
What was one of the most important food source for people on the Plateau? Why?
The camas root because few animals lived in the area.
400
List some of the animals that lived in the Eastern Woodlands.
Turkey, deer, and beaver
400
Why did the Seminoles wear leggings even though they lived in such a hot climate?
To protect their legs from the sharp saw grass and mosquitos.
400
Define mesa
a flat-topped hill with steep sides.
500
What did the Pomos use to make jewelery?
They used the ocean's resources! (more specifically, clamshells)
500
Where did American Indians of the Plateau get water from?
Large rivers (the Columbia and Fraser)
500
In the Eastern Woodlands, the Algonquins build homes called wigwams. What were they made out of?
They were made from small trees and bark or mats made from plants.
500
Describe the type of canoe they used.
It was a flat-bottomed dugout canoe so they could easily move along the shallow streams.
500
What is a gorge?
A narrow, deep valley with steep sides.
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