Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes,
Native American Terms
Plateau vs. Coastal
Native American History
The First Americans
100
This is the root of the word repatriate, and means "native country."
What is patria?
100
This is a wooden "fence" used to catch many fish at once.
What is a weir?
100
This grand party and feast was a sign of materialism amongst the coastal tribes.
What is materialism?
100
This culture began trading horses with the Native Americans.
What is the Spanish?
100
These are scientists who stuy artifacts to learn about ancient people.
What is an archeologist?
200
This prefix means "first" or "earliest."
What is proto?
200
This plant grows in many places and provided the Plateau tribes with material for mats and houses.
What is tule?
200
The Makah were experienced at this type of hunting.
What is whaling?
200
This tribe provided the basis for the "jargon" spoken by most Northwest tribes and the explorers and settlers with whom they traded.
What is Chinook?
200
Evidence of these people was found in a cache of Clovis spear points.
What is a Paleo-Indian?
300
These two prefixes both mean "not."
What is im and un?
300
This is a type of art in which the foreground is raised up from the background.
What is relief?
300
The Chinook used these for a form of currency, and the root word means "tooth."
What is dentalium shells?
300
These men had spiritual gifts and the ability to heal.
What is a shaman?
300
This is the person who looks into unnatural deaths, such as that of Kennewick Man.
What is a coroner?
400
This is the prefix that means "human" in the word "anthropology."
What is anthro?
400
This is the belief that animals and non-living objects have souls, and is evident in the myth of the Salmon People.
What is animism?
400
This is the word for the type of roles that were strictly defined in Native American culture.
What is gender?
400
This was a drastic period of change in the lives of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Protohistoric period?
400
This is the person who determines the death of ancient humans, and the root of the word means "human."
What is a forensic anthropologist?
500
This is the root of the word that means "the belief that nonliving things have spirits."
What is anima?
500
This is a person known as the creator, also known as the "Old Chief." His name is the One; the first word is a synonym for "Old"
What is the Ancient One?
500
This is the reason why Coastal Native Americans had leisure time to spend on recreation and art.
What is a constant food source?
500
This word means to kill a large number of people, such as the large number of Native People who were killed by smallpox.
What is to decimate?
500
This is the words for the type of features of the Kennewick Man that led archeologists to theorize that early Americans were not just from Asia.
What is Caucasoid or Caucasian?
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