This tells about the beginnings of Native American people.
What is an origin story?
100
Ancient Indians gradually began to plant seeds and grow food crops, beginning this practice.
What is agriculture?
100
These people adapted their ways of life to fit their environment.
Who are the people of the Desert Southwest?
100
Unlike the Northwest Coast Indians, these people used animals for most of their food, shelter, and tools.
Who are the Arctic Indians?
100
This is grassy earth held together by roots, cut into blocks or mats and used to cover lodges.
What is sod?
200
This theory suggested that hunting groups traveled to North America across Beringia.
What is the land bridge theory?
200
This was the first event to happen during the time of early civilization.
What is the Ice Age ending and the climate warming, causing glaciers to melt?
200
Both of these groups were divided into social classes.
Who are the Olmec and Mayan civilizations?
200
The Chinooks and other Northwest Coast Indians showed their wealth by holding these.
What are potlatches?
200
This was a confederation made up of the Five Nations that relied on a Great Council to make important decisions and put an end to most Iroquois fighting.
What is the Iroquois League?
300
The land-bridge story, early arrival theory, and origin stories all explain this.
What is early settlement in the Americas?
300
The following order shows this: the Olmecs ---> the Mound Builders ---> the Maya ---> the Anasazi.
What is the development of civilizations in the Americas?
300
This meant survival for the Pueblo people during times of drought.
What is a surplus?
300
These people fished, built wooden houses, and made totem poles.
Who are the Northwest Coast Indians?
300
The Algonquians and the Iroquois have this in common.
What is they were both from the Eastern Woodlands area?
400
The First Americans lived during this time period.
What is B.C.?
400
This early American civilization lived in groups of houses called pueblos.
Who are the Anasazi?
400
This place required the Southwest Indians to adapt their entire way of life to it, planting crops such as corn and storing the surplus.
What is the dry, desert environment?
400
These were the best-known traders among the Northwest Coast Indians.
Who are the Chinooks?
400
This is a cone-shaped tent made of wooden poles covered with buffalo skins.
What is a tepee?
500
Indians formed tribes many millenniums after giant animals became extinct. One millennium is this long.
What is 1,000 years?
500
The ancient Indians were nomads for this reason.
What is they followed their prey?
500
Hopi Indians in the Southwest lived in this way.
What is living in hogans, staying in one place, growing crops, and making cotton?
500
These people built dugouts to hunt whales.
Who are the Makahs?
500
The Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo they hunted for this reason.
What is they relied on upon the buffalo as one of their most important resources?