Native American
Culture Areas
Culture Areas
The Navajos and Pueblos lived in this culture area.
What is the Southwest?
a rectangular shelter built by the Iroquois
What is a longhouse?
these items suggest that the earliest Americans were hunters
What are clovis points
The Cherokees lived in this culture area.
What are the Southeast Woodlands?
a dome-shaped house made of blocks of snow and ice or sod that was built by nomadic Inuits
What were igloos?
What is wampum?
Number 4 is this culture area.
What is the Southeast Woodlands?
a Navajo home that was dome-shaped and made of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud
What is a Hogan?
This tribe was named by French settlers.
Number 3 is this culture area.
What is the Northeast Woodlands?
a special room in a pueblo that was set aside for religious activities
What is a kiva?
This was a frame used by Native Americans to carry babies on their backs.
What is a cradleboard?
Number 1 is this culture area.
What it the Plains?
an American Indian village of the Southwest made of stone and adobe buildings built very close together
What is a Pueblo?
The first Americans may have come by crossing this.
What is the Bering Strait?