Native American Resources
First Americans
Changing Ways of Life
Culture and Religion
Government
100
Native Americans made these out of trees which provided a means of travel by water.
What are boats/canoes?
100
Hunters chasing animals south and east across North America looking for food to feed their families, can also be described as "to travel".
What is migrate?
100
Native peoples invented tools and developed skills suitable to the land around them, surviving by learning to change or do this.
What is adapt?
100
Within a household, the role of this family member was to manage the family and home, as well as gather, grow, and prepare the food.
Who is the woman?
100
This system was developed for making rules and decisions to help guide groups of Native American leaders.
What is a government?
200
A system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods.
What is an economy?
200
A set of beliefs and a way of life that is special to a certain group.
What is a culture?
200
Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest depended on this for catching fish, whales, and seals.
What is the sea?
200
To the Pueblo people, these represented the spirits of ancestors or natural forces such as storms.
What are kachina dolls?
200
Settled groups of Native Americans had formal systems of government in which a decision-making body of people was called this.
What is a council?
300
Tepee coverings are made from these.
What are animal hides?
300
Instead of staying in one place, these Native Americans traveled to hunt wild animals and fish and to gather fruits and seeds.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
300
This group of Indians lived near huge earthen mounds in which they created.
Who are Mound Builders?
300
Hunting, protecting the village, helping with farm chores, and going on trade missions was the role of this family member in the Native American household.
Who is the man?
300
In what is today New York state, five different nations joined forces to form this, which is a group whose members share the same goals.
What is a league?
400
These Native Americans lived mainly from agriculture.
Who are the Southwest (Pueblo) Indians?
400
Native people who planted and raised their own food such as corn, beans, and sweet potatoes practiced this.
What is agriculture?
400
This Native American group built winter homes made out of blocks of snow.
Who are the Inuits?
400
A relative who lived in the past is called this.
What is an ancestor?
400
Some roles of this Native American government were to make decisions for the league, discuss problems and keep peace among the five groups, and choose and replace council members.
What is the League of the Iroquois?
500
They were dependent on bison for food, clothing, and coverings for tepees.
Who are the Plains Indians?
500
The Aztecs were skilled farmers who built this system for bringing water to dry fields.
What is irrigation?
500
This group built large apartment-style houses on mesas and later built cliff dwellings.
Who are the Ancient Puebloans?
500
Types of work and tools, clothing and hairstyles, and ceremonies and celebrations can be described as this.
What are the three different characteristics that can define a culture?
500
Small Native American groups followed a single leader such as a father, larger groups had a more formal structure called this.
What is a council?
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