Settling in Colorado
Gathering Materials
Early People and Tribes
Tribe Life
Vocabulary
100

When tribes were settling in, what two things did they want to be near to?

What is water and trees?

100

What were most clothing made out of?

What is buffalo or animal hides

100

This tribe was very close with the Cheyennes

What were the Arapahoes?

100

What are some words to describe a pit house that Archaic People lived in?

What is a hole in the ground covered with branches, grasses, or animal hides.

100

The vocabulary word ancestor means

What is a relative who lived before

200

These three tribes have lived in Colorado the longest

What is Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho?

200

Archaic Indians used the atlatl to

What is hunting?

200
This tribe had a tradition of the Bear Dance

What are the Utes?

200

Early peoples painted and communicated on what?

What are cave walls?

200

What is the vocabulary word to describe the action of trading goods instead of money?

What is barter
300

Tribes settled close to water because

What is it made hunting and gathering easier

300

What were common things that hunter-gatherers collected for their families?

What are seeds, berries, nuts, animals, etc
300

This tribe used buffalo for EVERYTHING

What are the Cheyennes?

300

This tribe lived in houses called wickiups

What is the Utes?

300

What does the vocabulary word paleo mean?

What is very old

400

What kind of people were the first people to settle in Colorado? (Hint: look at the beginning pages of Chapter 2)

What is the Paleo-Indians

400

Why were kill sites usually located at the bottom of cliffs?

What is it was easier to kill a large amount of buffalo at once instead of chasing each down individually.

400

The Clovis people got their name based on

What is where they lived?

400
Kivas were primarily used for
What is ceremonies or special activites
400

Which word is the vocabulary word describing "a form of art painted on a rock."

What are pictographs or petroglyphs

500
This is the name of the theory that explains how people got to Colorado when they lived on another continent? (Hint: look at the first page of chapter 2)

What is the Bering Land Bridge Theory

500

Which group of peoples were considered the first-basket makers? Hint: look at the last page of Chapter 2, Lesson 1

What are the Archaic Indians?

500

Why do archaeologists think Ancestral Puebloans or Fremont people moved away from Mesa Verde?

What is they don't know (it's a mystery)

500

What does the vocabulary word reservoir mean?

What is a place where a large amount of water is stored

500

What does the vocabulary word legend mean?

What is a story that teaches a lesson or celebrates a brave deed?

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