The First Californians
Who are three Native American Tribes that lived in the Bay Area?
What are Chochenyo, Ramaytush, Karkin, Yokuts, Bay Miwok?
What is one example of Native Americans adapting to their environment?
What is the food they ate, the homes they built, or the clothes they wore?
What was the most important natural resources to the Native Americans of the northern Coastal region?
What are trees and rivers?
Which of these tribes did NOT live in the Central Valley Region? The Maidus, Yokuts, Yuroks, and Miwoks.
What is the Yuroks?
What is the name of the plank canoe used by the Southern Coastal Region to fish in the ocean?
What is tomol?
What are three types of artifacts that tell us about the past?
What are clothing, tools, weapons, beliefs, diet, and daily life?
What is an example of how Native Americans modified the land using fire?
What is burning the land to improve grass so that deer could come, burned the forest floor so that oaks would grow better, or burn the edge of their village to create a fire break?
What food did the people at in the Northern Coastal region?
What are deer, moose, elk, and salmon?
What resource did they have to harvest, story, and process?
What are acorns?
What is the name of the round home made out of wood and bark?
What is a Wigwam?
What is shamanism?
What is the belief in spiritual healing?
Why did Native Americans create trails through California's diverse geography?
What are to find needed other resources and to trade items with other groups?
What type of houses did Northern Coastal Native Americans create?
What are plank houses?
What is the term used to describe how Native Americans were organized in this region?
What is tribelets?
What are two of the only year round source of water in the desert region?
What are springs and wells?
Why were so many different languages spoken in California?
What are the challenging and diverse California geography?
The region's varied environments, from the coast to mountains to deserts, fostered the growth of numerous small, isolated groups, each creating its own unique language and culture over thousands of years.
Why are many of California's largest cities located where the largest groups of Native Americans settled?
What is the same reasons the Native Americans chose those locations: access to fresh water, food, and strategic harbors?
What are three ways that plants were used in the Northern Coastal region?
What are food, medicine, and baskets?
Why did groups move to different areas in the warmer months?
What is to take advantage of the great amount of resources in the area?
What river did the Native Americans in the desert region live along?
What is the Colorado river?
Which region had the wealthiest tribes and why?
What is the Northern Coastal region because of their many natural resources?
What are the Central Valley region and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
What were totem poles used for?
Who is to tell the family history and to communicate and pass down family stories?
What is the difference between the Kuksu religion and the Toloache religion?
What is who led the ceremonies?
The kuksu religion had men perform rituals to ensure good health, weather, and harvests. The Toloache religion had shamans, or healers, who helped gain supernatural powers.
Which of these tribes did NOT live in the desert region? Cahuilla, Chumash, Serrano, or Quechan.
What is Chumash?