Vocabulary
How Native Americans Lived
Native American Tribes
Native American Influence
Native American Facts
100
Define "artifacts"
Things left behind by people who lived long ago
100
What type of houses did the Huron tribe live in?
Longhouses
100
Name three of the Native American tribes who once lived in Michigan.
Ojibway, Odawa, Menominee, Potawatomi, Miami, and Huron
100
Name one of the crops that Native Americans were the first to grow.
Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and tobacco
100
What did Henry and Jane Schoolcraft do to help the tribes?
They collected all of their legends together so that they wouldn't be forgotten
200
Define "dugouts"
Logs hollowed into boats
200
What did all of the tribes live close to?
Nature
200
Name the two things that the Hopewell people were good at.
They were good artists and metal workers
200
Name one of the "inventions" from the Native Americans.
Toboggan or snowshoes
200
How did Native American children learn how to live and survive?
They learned as they watched their parents do things
300
Define "tribe"
A group of people who live in the same neighborhood
300
Why could winter be a hard time for the tribes to survive?
Because there was not much food in the winter time
300
The name Odawa comes from the word "adawa" which means what?
To trade
300
Why are most Indian Mounds gone today?
Because people have dug them up as they build houses and plant crops
300
Explain how Native Americans would adapt to their environment.
If they didn't have any wood they could use buffalo chips to burn a fire
400
Define "historians"
Detectives
400
Name two reasons why a tribe would move to a new place.
Because of disease, because of war, because of lack of food, etc.
400
What would a tribe do if something they needed was scarce where they lived?
They would trade with other tribes for something they had a lot of or they could adapt to their environment
400
The city of "Saginaw" is named after what?
The Sauk tribe
400
What were "wigwams"?
Native American houses built out of birch bark
500
Define "diversity"
Different kinds of people living and working together
500
Name two reasons the "Three Fires Tribes" would have groups together.
They spoke the same language, they lived in the same types of homes, they did things the same way, they worked together, and they could work together to protect themselves
500
The name "Potawatomi" means what?
The people of the place of the fire
500
The name "Mackinac" means what?
Great turtle
500
North America includes which three nations?
United States, Canada, and Mexico
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