Vocabulary
Coastal Indians 1
Coastal Indians 2
Plateau Indians 1
Plateau Indians 2
100
A weapon. tool. or other article made and used by people who lived long ago
What is an artifact?
100
The ocean that was to the west of the Coastal Indians.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Material from which they made houses, clothing, canoes.
What is cedar?
100
The homes of Plateau Indians was made of this.
What is poles and grass mats?
100
Theplateau Indians decorated their clothes with these.
What are shells, quills, and animal teeth?
200
A scientist who studies artifacts
What is archeologist?
200
The Indians word for all fish.
What is Salmon
200
A root eaten by the Coastal Indians.
What is camas?
200
Plateau Indians went here to catch fish.
What is the Columbia River?
200
The Plateau Indians learned about this from the Plains Indians.
What is a tepee?
300
A written record of daily activities
What is a journal?
300
The house that the Coastal Indians lived in.
What is a plank house?
300
Food gattered by the Coastal Indians.
What is nuts and berries?
300
How the Plateau Indians preserved the fish they caught.
What is smoking or drying?
300
They brought horses to North America.
Who are the Spanish explorers?
400
A way of life shared by a group of people who have the same customs, beliefs, past and often language.
What is culture?
400
It told what clan the family of Indians was.
What is a totem pole?
400
Land animals hunted by the Coastal Indians.
What is deer, and elk?
400
Where Plateau Indians went to hunt for big game such as deer and mountain sheep.
What is to the mountains?
400
The Plateau Indians camped by the Columbia river during part of the year for this reason.
What is to fish for salmon?
500
The land, climate, and living thing surrounding a group of people.
What is environment?
500
It made the Coastal Indians feel important.
What is a pointed head?
500
Sea animals caught by Coastal Indians.
What is whales, porpoises, and sea lions?
500
This is the mountain range that separates the Coastal Indians from the Plateau Indians.
What is the Cascade Range?
500
Where the Plateau Indians had to go to find big game animals.
What is the mountains?
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