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This & That
100
This Fish that swims up river to lay eggs, was a staple of the Northwest natives' diet.
What is salmon?
100
What is the name of the guardian spirit of the Southwest?
A. Azeban
B. Etu
C. Kachina
What is a Kachina
A kachina is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples, Native American cultures located in the south-western part of the United States.
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. The local pantheon of kachinas varies from pueblo community to community. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, as well as many other concepts.
Kachinas are understood as having human-like relationships, such as having uncles, sisters, and grandmothers, as well as marrying and having children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example.
100
Native Americans from this area made clothes, tools, weapons, and food from this animal they hunted
What is buffalo (or bison)?
100
The Iroquois lived in this type of rectangular home made from saplings covered with bark and sewn together.
A. Wigwam
B. Plank house
C. Longhouse
What is a longhouse
100
What is the name of a group of families related to one another.
A. Clan
B. Tribe
C. Nation
What is a clan
a clan is an extended family. A tribe or Nation is a larger unit made up of clans, which are made up of families.
200
This carved pole used symbols to tell stories of a native family
What is a totem pole
200
This adobe home had many rooms where many families could live together
A. Kiva
B. Travois
C. Pueblo
What is a pueblo
200
These carriers were made of two poles and animal skins
A. Travois
B. Wampum
C. Cradleboard
What is a travois
200
Name an animal that the Eastern Woodland tribes may have hunted.
What is deer, rabbit, bear, squirrel
200
What is the name of a native American healer or religious leader?
What is a shaman
Shamans perform a variety of functions depending upon their respective cultures; healing, leading a sacrifice, preserving traditions by storytelling and songs, fortune-telling, and acting as a psychopomp ("guide of souls"). A single shaman may fulfill several of these functions
300
This evergreen tree was used to build homes, canoes, and weapons
What is a cedar tree?
300
These cone shaped houses were built by covering a log frame with mud
A. Hogan
B. Wigwam
C. Teepee
What is a Hogan
300
This cone shaped shelter made of poles and covered with buffalo skin was easy to move
What is a tepee
300
Name two resources that Eastern woodlands were lucky to have an abundance of
What are ...
1. water sources (ocean, lake, rivers)
2. trees
3. animals (deer, fish, birds, bear, etc)
300
These three vegetables were known as the "Three Sisters"
A. Peppers, Potatoes, Pumpkin
B. Carrots, Avocados, Tomatoes
C. Beans, Squash, and Corn
What are beans, squash, and corn
400
Northwest natives would make these items, that could fit up to 60 people, by hollowing out large trees
What is a canoe.
400
This yellow vegetable was an important resource in this area.
What is corn?
400
This circular house was built over a pit and covered with sod.
A. Lodge
B. Cabin
C. Plank house
What is a lodge
400
What would you find in the middle of a wigwam or long house?
What is a fire
400
The Northwest tribes lived along this ocean coast?
What is the Pacific Ocean
500
These ceremonies are a gift giving feast practiced by Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest?
A. Pow-wows
B. Peyote Worship
C. Potlatch
What is a potlatch?
What is a Potlatch
A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader's wealth and power. Potlatches are also focused on the reaffirmation of family, clan, and international connections, and the human connection with the supernatural world. Legal proceedings may include naming's, business negotiations and transactions, marriages, divorces, deaths, end of mourning, transfers of physical and especially intellectual property, adoptions, initiations, treaty proceedings, monument commemorations, and honoring of the ancestors. Potlatch also serves as a strict resource management regime, where coastal peoples discuss, negotiate, and affirm rights to and uses of specific territories and resources. Potlatches often involve music, dancing, singing, storytelling, making speeches, and often joking and games. The honoring of the supernatural and the recitation of oral histories are a central part of many potlatches
500
What item did the Pueblo people pull into their homes to keep their enemies out?
A. Bows and Arrows
B. Wooden Rakes
C. Ladders
What is a ladder
The Pueblo Indians were peaceful peoples who rarely attacked other peoples. But often they did need to fight to protect themselves from Apache, Navajo, and other groups who raided their villages to steal the stores of corn the Pueblo people worked so hard to grow.
To keep these invaders out of their homes, they built the entrances to their living areas in the roofs of their pueblos. The entrances were reached by climbing a ladder.
If an enemy tried to get inside a pueblo, the inhabitants could merely kick the ladder, a strategy that protected their homes and injured the intruder at the same time.
500
Native Americans hunted buffalo by doing what?
A. Use spears.
B. Chase them off a cliff
C. Shoot with bow and arrow
What is chasing them off of a cliff
500
Which Native Americans were historically present in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What are the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, and the Monacan, Saponi, and Tutelo Indians of western Virginia, were among the earliest inhabitants of the Blue Ridge, leaving artifacts and changes in the landscape as evidence of their existence.
500
Name two resources that were found in the ocean and used by the natives?
What are salmon, whales, crabs, etc?