Homes
Clothing
Food
Tools
Ways of Travel
Other
100
Native Americans built part of their homes underground to keep cool in this region.
What is the desert region?
100
In the mountains, the Hupa decorated headdresses with these.
What are feathers?
100
This region provides fish, shellfish, sea birds, seaweed, and honey to the Native Americans.
What is the coastal region?
100
This material was used by the Mojave to create pots.
What is clay?
100
In the coast and mountain regions, Native Americans built these types of boats to travel on the water.
What are canoes?
100
True or false:
Native American tribes have their own governments and laws.
True.
Their governments are called tribal councils.
200
The Pomos in the California coastal region covered their homes with this kind of tall grass that grows in water.
What is tule grass?
200
Tribes in the coast, valley, and desert all kept warm by making robes out of this material.
What is animal skin?
200
California Indians ate cactus, gourds, and insects in this California region.
What is the desert region?
200
The coast Indians used thin fibers from this plant to make rope.
What is milkweed?
200
The Yuma and the Mojave drifted along rivers by floating on these gathered logs.
What is a raft?
200
This is an area of land owned by an American Indian group.
What is a reservation?
300
True or false: CA Native Americans used the resources they had around them to build their houses.
True.
They gathered, hunted, and traded supplies that were available to them.
300
In the mountains, Hupa women wore skirts woven from bear grass and this material.
What are shells?
300
This tree nut was a staple food for Native Americans in the valley.
What are acorns?
300
In the valley, The Miwok created spear points out of this hard, glassy rock.
What is obsidian?
300
The Hupa made their redwood-logged canoes to travel on this river.
Who traveled on the Trinity River?
300
Name at least three ways Native American groups earn money today.
Fishing and selling fish
Opening museums and tours
Entertainment (ceremonies, dancing, signing, story telling)
Selling arts and crafts
400
These tribes built cone-shaped houses made out of cedar and pine trees.
Who are The Yokuts and the Miwok?
400
Native Americans wove fibers from yucca plants into sandals in this California region.
What is the desert region?
400
The Maidu used tree branches to move this insect into holes filled with water before baking them.
What are grasshoppers?
400
This tribe created a purse out of elk horn.
Who are the Yurok?
400
Coast Indians used to row in the San Francisco Bay in this type of boat.
Who used a balsa boat?
400
How do California Indian Groups help California towns economically?
CA Indians earn money on their reservations, and then spend their money in outside local towns (like banking, shopping, hospitals)
500
In the mountains, the Hupa had this in the middle of their homes for cooking and staying warm.
What are fire pits?
500
True or false: Native Americans do not wear their traditional clothing at all anymore.
False.
Most Native Americans dress like we do now, but they still wear traditional clothing for ceremonies and special occasions.
500
Coast Indians used this tool to catch clams, mussels, crabs, and seabirds.
Who used large nets?
500
When the river was low in summer, mountain Indians built this large wooden dam in the water to sit on and catch fish.
What is a weir?
500
True or false:
Some Native Americans swam to travel on the rivers.
True.
And those who could not swim traveled on logs pushed along by swimmers.
500
This is why Native American people still hold tribal ceremonies and traditions, and tell folklore today.
How do they not forget their culture?
