Vocabulary
Hopi Origin Story
Environments
Inuits
Sioux
100
The movement of people from one country or area of the world to anew home in another country or area.
What is Migration?
100
A tale that explains where a tribe of American Indians believe their ancestors came from.
What is an Origin Story?
100
This is the definition of environment.
What is everything that surrounds us?
100
This is another word for the Inuits.
What is Eskimos?
100
The Sioux added pictures to these once a year, during winter count.
What is a pictograph?
200
Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, and minerals.
What is Natural Resource?
200
This is the place where the Hopi believe their ancestors lived.
What is inside the Earth?
200
This environment is known for only getting enough rain to support grasses, but few trees.
What is Grasslands?
200
This is the environment that the Inuits settled.
What is Arctic Ice Fields
200
This is what the pictures in a pictograph represent.
What is a key event from that year?
300
A change or adjustment in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment.
What is Adaptation?
300
The type of bird that the Hopi chief sent to fly around the earth.
What is a Mockingbird?
300
This environment gets very little rain, so few plans grow here. American Indians had to dig wells and ditches to get enough water.
What is Desert?
300
These are the things that the Inuit made from the animals they hunted. Name at least three.
What are clothing, blankets, tents, fuel, dogsleds, and tools.
300
This is the title given to the person who added the pictures to the winter count.
What is the keeper?
400
A circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe memebers talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies.
What is a Kiva?
400
This is how the Hopi ancestors reached the Earth's surface.
What is a ladder made of plants.
400
This environment gets lots of rain and snow. Trees grow here except for at the highest points.
What are the Mountains?
400
The Inuit used inflated seal skins for this purpose.
What is tie them to harpoons in order to tire out walrus or seal?
400
This is what the Sioux used to replace the winter count hides.
What is writing?
500
A picture that represents an important event or idea.
What is a Pictograph?
500
Kivas were build underground for this reason.
What is to keep cool?
500
In this environment, giant sheets of ice cover the land for most of the year.
What is the Arctic Ice Fields?
500
Name the two types of shelters that the Inuit live in.
What is tents and igloos?
500
Name at least three environmental events that would be put on a winter count.
What is heavy snow, no rain, hunts, travel to other areas, shooting stars, or a chief's death?
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