First Americans
These people are known as the first Americans.
Who were the Paleo-Indians?
This animal provided Great Plains tribes with food and materials for clothing, shelter, and tools.
What is the bison/buffalo?
The Tlingit used this type of tree to make totem poles.
What is cedar?
This “G” represented explorers' desire to bring wealth to their countries.
What is Gold?
North and South America were named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Paleo-Indians survived by hunting animals, fishing, and doing this.
What is hunting, fishing, and gathering plants?
The Tlingit were mainly located in this modern-day U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
The word potlatch means this.
What is “to give”?
This “G” represented the desire to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity.
What is God?
This explorer was trying to reach Asia by sailing west.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This development allowed Paleo-Indians to settle instead of living a nomadic lifestyle.
What is farming?
The Haudenosaunee lived in this type of home.
What are longhouses?
Totem poles from our reading were constructed by Indigenous peoples from this region.
What is the Northwest?
This “G” represented claiming and colonizing land for a European country.
What is Glory?
This explorer claimed land in present-day Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This is another name for the Cliff Dwellers.
Who were the Ancient Pueblo?
Unlike Eastern Plains tribes, the Comanche lived this type of lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
What is a Wampum?
The Haudenosaunee made these small beads from shells and clams.
Explain how Gold, God, and Glory motivated Europeans to explore.
Europeans explored to gain wealth, spread Christianity, and claim/colonize land for their countries.
This explorer traveled through Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
Mound Builders constructed large mounds for these TWO purposes.
What are religious ceremonies and burial sites?
Haudenosaunee family lines followed the bloodline of this parent.
Who is the mother?
Totem poles helped Indigenous peoples remember these THREE things.
What are important people, events, and legends?
Name the Three G's of European exploration.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
This explorer's expedition became the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon and Colorado River.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?