Cultures
This is how Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest were able to visually pass on their stories and legends.
What is carving totem poles?
This is why treaties made between America and the Native American tribes were difficult to enforce.
What is the fact that the natives had no central government to approve the treaties?
Native Americans in the Pleateau region had a slightly easier life then those in the Great Basin for these reasons.
What is the fact that animals, water, and plants were more plentiful?
This is the word that means a unit in the army.
What is a regiment?
This battle effectively ended the Indian Wars.
What was Wounded Knee?
The Native Americans of the Great Basin used this food for much of their caloric needs.
What is the pine nut?
The Plains Native Americans used this animal in its entirety.
What is the bison?
The land in the Plains can be describes as these.
What are gransslands?
This is the word that means the violent killing of defenseless people.
What is a massacre?
This is the word that means a plant or animal that is a respected symbol in Native American society.
What is a totem?
This was the plan for getting Native Americans to willingly leave their land.
What was to give the natives reservations to live on?
This is the word that means a Native American leader who is believed to have special powers.
What is a shaman?
This is what the enormous chunk of land President Thomas Jefferson purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte was called.
What is the Louisiana Territory/Purchase?
This is the word that means a symbol.
What is an emblem?
The event in which thousands of Native Americans were forced to march hundreds of miles to what is present-day Oklahoma is known as this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This is what took place at Sand Creek.
What was the massacre of a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho by American army officers?
This is the famous quote from Chief Joseph.
What is "I will fight no more forever"?
These Great Basin Native Americans moved from place to place.
Who were the Paiutes?
This means a small group of people who feed themselves by stalking and killing animals and collecting plants and seeds.
What are hunter-gatherers?
This is what took place at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What was Custer's Last Stand, or the deaths of George Custer and all his soldiers?
Every spring, the Nez Perce of the Pacific Northwest got together for this reason.
What is hunt for salmon?
This is the word that means a group of people who share the same leadership, language, customs, and beliefs.
What is a tribe?
This is the main effect of the climate in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the amount of rainfall being enough to grow forests full of plants and animals?
This is the word that means to adopt the ways of another culture.
What is assimilate?
This is the word that means a group of families claiming a common ancestor.
What is a clan?