Native American Studies
Historians believe the earliest Americans came from this continent.
What is Asia?
These Indians lived along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
Who are the Olmecs?
These carved wooden posts usually featured faces of animals or birds stacked one on top of the other.
What are totem poles?
This larger tribe was also known as Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota.
Who are the Sioux?
The Sioux Indians wore clothing made from the hides of deer known by this term.
What is buckskin?
Man-made objects left behind by people.
What are artifacts?
These Indians built amazing pyramids in Central America.
Who are the Mayans?
This Indian tribe lived in California and on the Channel Islands off the coast.
Who were the Chumash?
What are appaloosas?
The tribal shamans used these methods to contact their spirits.
What are visions and rituals?
This term describes a people's way of life.
What is culture?
This tribe built cities with drainage systems.
Who are the Olmecs?
The men from this tribe prepared for their whale hunting expeditions by watching the sky and sea for weather signs and by retreating to the woods to ask for guidance from the spirits.
Who were the Makahs?
The name for this tribe means "pierced nose."
Who are the Nez Perce?
The earliest people, while not Christians, were able to do their part in fulfilling this command from God to populate and care for the earth.
What is the Creation Mandate?
This type of scientist searches for artifacts to learn about ancient cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
These "arrowhead-like" artifacts seem to suggest that the earliest Americans were hunters.
What are clovis points?
The Makah tribe bought food from the Pacific ocean by this method.
What are cedar canoes?
What is bison (or buffalo)?
This governing body for the Iroquois Indians influenced America in forming its government.
What is the Great Council?
This is the name given to Indian religious leaders, believed to have communication with the spirits.
What is shaman?
This Indian culture in Central America left city ruins behind.
Who are the Mayans?
This tribe worshiped nature's objects such as the sun, animals, and sea creatures instead of the God Who made them all.
Who are the Chumash?
The Plains Indians lived in these portable homes so that it was easier for them to follow the buffalo herds.
What are tepees?
Known as the "three sisters," these crops were staples of nutrition for the Iroquois.
What are beans, corn, and squash?