Vocabulary Vault
A clay pot, a canoe, or a basket made by a group of people is called this.
What is an artifact?
The lesson map divides North America into this many American Indian cultural regions.
What is seven?
The Algonquins bent small trees into a dome and covered them with birch bark or mats to build these homes.
What are wigwams?
At this Makah ceremony, the host gave away many of his most valuable possessions.
What is a potlatch?
Trading goods directly with each other, without using money, is called this.
What is barter?
What is barter?
A group's way of living, including its food, homes, language, and traditions?
Culture
Rain was light on the Plateau, so tribes there got water from these, like the Columbia and the Fraser.
What are rivers?
The Hopis built these apartment-style buildings of stone and adobe, up to five levels high.
What are pueblos?
The Taos held secret religious ceremonies in these special meeting rooms.
What are kivas?
Groups in California and the Northwest Coast used these as money, and the rarer ones were worth more.
What are shells?
What are shells?
Unlike a mesa, which is a flat-topped hill, this landform is a narrow, deep valley with steep sides.
What is a gorge?
The Seminoles wore deer-hide leggings to protect their legs from mosquitoes and this razor-sharp swamp plant.
What is saw grass?
The Hopis made these decorated containers to cook, serve, and store their food.
What are clay pots?
The Makahs hollowed out this natural resource to make whale-hunting canoes and carved it into totem poles.
What are trees (wood)?
The Western Dakotas considered this animal sacred because it gave them food, tepees, blankets, and shields.
What is the bison (buffalo)?
Among a gorge, a culture, and an old clay pot, this is the only one that is an artifact.
What is an old clay pot?
This feature of the California-Intermountain environment explains why the Pomos made beads and money from clamshells.
What is the ocean?
Made of birch bark over a cedar frame, this Algonquin boat was light enough to carry from one stream to another.
What is a canoe (birch-bark canoe)?
Each spring, the Iowas put away these portable homes and lived in dome-shaped lodges until fall.
What are tepees?
Cahokia's toolmakers did this, meaning they performed mainly one job and traded for the other things they needed.
What is specialize?
Historians use this two-word name for an area where groups developed similar cultures because they shared an environment.
What is a cultural region?
Tribes in regions with plenty of this farmed more, while tribes in dry regions relied on hunting and gathering.
What is rain (water)?
These Seminole homes sat three feet above swampy ground and had no walls, so breezes could blow through.
What are chickees?
The Senecas, Mohawks, and three other tribes formed this government and agreed not to fight among themselves.
What is the League of the Iroquois (the Great Peace)?
The Taos relied on neighboring groups for woven blankets, an example of this economic idea of groups depending on each other.
What is interdependence?
Southwest tribes who moved to escape the heat and Iowas who followed the bison herds can both be described by this vocabulary word.
What is nomadic?
Scorching days, freezing nights, very little rain, mesas, and canyons describe this cultural region.
What is the Southwest?
Living where dense forests grew right to the ocean's shore, this Northwest Coast tribe built huge wooden homes and wore cedar-bark clothes.
Who are the Kwakiutls?
A Makah whale hunter's role passed from father to son, but Seneca sachems inherited their power from this family member.
Who is their mother?
In this Great Plains tribe, members elected their leaders, making its government the most like elections in the United States today.
Who are the Blackfoot?