VOCABULARY
A large house where many Native American families lived together.
What is a longhouse?
The Native American groups on the Western Plains relied on this animal for food, shelter, and clothing.
What is the buffalo?
The Native American group that lived near Lake Ontario.
Who are the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida?
The Southwest Indians had to rely on this to grow their crops because of the dry conditions.
What is irrigation?
The hosts of this event gave valuable gifts to their guests to show their wealth and status.
What is a potlatch?
The movement of animals or people from one region to another.
What is migration?
The Haudenosaunee families lived in these types of homes.
What are longhouses?
This river was an important resource for Native American tribes, providing water, transportation, and food.
What is the Mississippi River?
The main reason why some tribes became nomadic, moving from place to place.
What is to follow animal herds for food?
This important event allowed the Haudenosaunee to make their nation stronger.
What is the creation of a confederation?
The ceremony where gifts are given to show wealth and status.
What is a potlatch?
The name of the ancient civilization that lived in the American Southwest and built underground rooms called kivas.
Who were the Anasazi (or Ancient Pueblo)?
This region’s tribes depended on the sea, rivers, and forests for their way of life.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
The buffalo was an essential resource for this Native American group, providing food, shelter, and clothing.
Who are the Plains Indians?
Why were kivas built underground by the Anasazi (Pueblo)?
For religious ceremonies.
A person who moves from place to place in search of food.
What is a nomad?
The league formed by the Haudenosaunee tribes to strengthen their nation.
What is the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy?
The geographic feature that appeared between Alaska and Asia during the Ice Age, allowing migration to North America.
What is the Beringia land bridge?
The Native American group that depended on salmon, animal furs, and forests for survival.
Who are the tribes of the Pacific Northwest?
Describe one reason why horses were important for Plains Indians.
They were used for hunting buffalo and traveling great distances.
The name of the natural land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age.
What is Beringia?
What important role did clan mothers play in the Haudenosaunee government?
They had the power to choose and remove chiefs.
Name two Haudenosaunee tribes that lived near Lake Ontario.
Who are the Seneca and Cayuga?
How did the Southwest tribes adapt to the harsh desert environment to grow crops?
By building irrigation systems.
What was the purpose of the potlatch ceremony among Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest?
What is to show wealth and status by giving gifts to guests?