The First Californians
What are the left behind items called that scientists study?
What are artifacts?
What was the most important natural resources to the Native Americans of the northern Coastal region?
What are trees and rivers?
What material did the Chumash use to make their baskets?
What is tar?
Which of these tribes did NOT live in the Central Valley Region? The Maidus, Yokuts, Yuroks, and Miwoks.
What is the Yuroks?
What did tribes in the Central Valley and Mountain Range use to build their homes?
What are branches covered with grass or tule?
What is another name for the groups of Native Americans?
What are tribes?
What was the most important food for the Yurok?
What is salmon?
What were strings of shells used for?
What is trade?
When did early people first reach California?
What is more than 13,000 years ago?
What are springs?
What is another word for a groups 'way of life'?
What is culture?
What type of houses did Northern Coastal Native Americans create?
What are plank houses?
What did the Chumash create for water travel?
What are tomols?
Where did Maidu Native Americans store their extra acorns?
What is a granary?
What did the river leave behind that allowed for great crop producing?
What is silt?
What did they call the stories that Native Americans shared?
What are legends?
What is the name for the 'fences' the Yurok used to catch salmon?
What are weirs?
What is the system in place that allows citizens to make rules and choose leaders?
What are governments?
What is another term for 'system of work'?
What is a division of labor?
What river did the Native Americans in the desert region live along?
What is the Colorado river?
What do you call the group of people who came before you?
What are ancestors?
What is the name for a Yurok religious leader?
Who is a shaman?
What did scientists believe early people used to travel from Asia to North America?
What is by crossing a land bridge?
Why were games important for the Miwok?
Which of these tribes did NOT live in the desert region? Cahuilla, Chumash, Serrano, or Mojave.
What is Chumash?