Navajos/Pueblos
a Navajo home that was dome-shaped and made of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud
hogan
Who named the Nez Perces?
French settlers
In what culture area did the Cherokees live?
Southeast Woodland
a dome-shaped house made of blocks of snow and ice or sod that was built by the nomadic Inuits
Igloo
In what culture area did the Navajos and Pueblos live?
Southwest
In what culture area did the Nez Perces live?
Plateau
A frame used by Native Americans to carry babies on their backs was called What
cradleboard
Customs, beliefs, creative arts, and institutions of a group of people are called what?
Culture
a special room in a pueblo that was set aside for religious activities
Kiva
What does Nez Perces stand for
Pierced nose
What is shamanism?
Believing in spirits and trying to communicate with them
An archaeologist is a person who looks for What in order to study past human cultures
Artifacts
an American Indian village of the Southwest made of stone and adobe buildings built very close together
Pueblo
a rectangular shelter built by the Iroquois
Longhouse
What suggests that the earliest Americans were hunters
Clovis Points
Early Americans fulfilled the Creation Mandate by filling and ruling over
North America
Which people were known for a special art called sand painting
Navajos
What did the Iroquois sometimes use as money?
Wampum
What is a totem pole
a large wooden statue of carved animal or bird faces stacked on top of one another to be symbols of the Makah family ancestors
The first Americans may have come by crossing the What?
Bering Strait