Vocabulary
Cultural Regions
Odds and Ends
Artifacts
Tribes
100
Objects made by Native Americans to help them adapt to their environment
What are artifacts?
100
This cultural region was located between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains. It had hot summers and freezing winters. Large rivers provided water to the region. Trees grew only near the mountains, but other areas had thick grasses and plants like the camas, whose root was an important food. The Yakima lived in this region.
What is the Plateau region?
100
Teepees were made of buffalo skins. What cultural region built them?
What is the Great Plains?
100
Buffalo was used frequently in this cultural region. An example of an artifact from this region is the Buffalo Hide Blanket.
What is the Great Plains region?
100
The Souix tribe used buffalo in many of their artifacts in this cultural region.
What is the Great Plains?
200
Different ways of living developed by Native American groups
What is cultures?
200
This cultural region extended from the Atlantic Ocean, along the Gulf of Mexico, all the way to East Texas. The region was hot and humid especially in the summer. Part of this region included swamps that were home to animals like deer, alligators and snakes, and plants like tall palms and cypress trees. The Seminole lived here.
What is the Southeast region?
200
Which cultural region developed a flat bottom canoe in order to help it move across the swamp lands?
What is Southeast region?
200
Cedar trees were used frequently in this region. An example of an artifact from this region is the Cedar Bark rain cape.
What is the Northwest Coast region?
200
This warm cultural region was home to the Hopi tribe.
What is the Southwest region?
300
A narrow, deep Valley with steep sides
What is gorge?
300
This cultural region covered states like Arizona and New Mexico. It extended to northern Mexico. There were mesas, canyons, and deserts in this region. The climate was hot in the summer and freezing in the winters. The region received little rain, so there were few trees or other plants. Hopi lived in this region.
What is the Southwest region?
300
What were the apartment buildings built into the side of mesas using stone and adobe called.
What is pueblos?
300
This region was warmer and could have homes with open sides such as the Chickee House.
What is the Southeast region?
300
The Yakima was the tribe from this cultural region that also built their homes underground for protection in the winter.
What is the Plateau region?
400
A flat topped Hill area with steep sides
What is mesa?
400
This cultural region stretched from the Pacific Coast to the Sierra Nevada mountains and into the Great Basin. Part of the region was desert, with extreme heat and cold and little rainfall. The other part had mild climate and rich resources like huge redwood forests, and shores filled with clams and other shellfish. The Pomo lived here.
What is California-Intermountain Region?
400
Moving from place to place as changes in seasons made food available in different areas. A term to describe these people is called what?
What is nomadic?
400
This region used birch bark frequently in its artifacts. They used birch bark in order to make the canoes light and fast in the water. They were easier to move from stream to stream.
What is Eastern Woodlands?
400
Seminole was the tribe from this cultural region.
What is the Southeast?
500
Seven areas where Native Americans developed different ways of living
What are cultural regions?
500
This cultural region extended from the Atlantic Coast through the Ohio Valley to the Mississippi River. The region had four distinct seasons. Streams and rivers crisscrossed the region and would through forests of oak, maple, and birch trees. The forests were home to such animals as deer, beavers, and turkeys. Algonquain tribes lived here.
What is Eastern Woodlands region?
500
People of the Plateau region used this root as an important food source.
What is cama root?
500
This region has a variety of artifacts and resources. It had clam shell necklaces, cone-shaped redwood houses, and grass baskets decorated with beads, feathers and shells.
What is California-Intermountain region?
500
This cultural region had two different languages spoken by its tribes. One was the Algonquain and the other was Iroquios.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
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