Vocabulary
1. These are tall wooden, painted animal or people carvings that tell stories of Pacific Northwest Coast Native Americans.
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2. This word means "migrating people."
1. What are Totem Poles?
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2. What is nomadic?
This is the Southwest group/tribe of Native Americans language is so difficult to learn that this group's language was used for code talking during World War II on the Pacific War Front.
Who are the Navajo?
All the different groups of Native Americans believed that everything on Earth has this.
What is a spirit/soul?
1. This type of dome-shaped Great Basin Native Americans home was covered in dry grass and held together by strong plant fibers from plants, like the yucca plant.
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2. This type of multi-family Pacific Northwest Coast home was rectangular shaped made with huge slabs from cedar trees with lower triangular roofs to keep the heat in and the cold out.
1. What is a wickiup house?
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2. What is a plank house?
This Pueblo Folktale explains why turkeys fly away in fear when humans approach them.
What is the story, Turkey Girl?
1. The Arctic Native Americans lived in a snowy and icy region that required their clothing to have this quality to protect them from the environment.
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2. This is an object that is made from a mixture of clay, sand, water, and straw, and then it is dried in the sun.
1. What is waterproof?
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2. What is adobe brick?
This Southeast group/tribe of Native Americans women had a voice in the government and could become warriors.
Who are the Cherokee?
This region thought it was more impressive among the people to touch the enemy and escape unharmed than to kill the enemy.
Which is the Great Plains region?
1. This type of Southwest Native Americans home was made out of adobe bricks that could reach up to four to five stories in height.
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2. This type of Southwest and Great Basin Native Americans home was made using wooden poles that were covered with mud, clay, and tree bark with the doorway facing east towards the sunrise.
1. What is a pueblo?
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2. What is a hogan?
These are the reasons how the horse changed the lives of the people living in the Great Plains region.
What are the horse made traveling long distances for the Great Plains natives nomadic lifestyle easier, and the horse made it better to hunt buffalo?
1. This is a high fence made of tall poles that the Southeast Native Americans built around their villages.
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2. This is a special dance that the Southwest and Great Plains Native Americans used to celebrate special occasions and for religious reasons.
1. What is a stockade?
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2. What is a powwow?
1. This Great Plains group/tribe of Native Americans men wore bear claw necklaces to represent bravery.
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2. This Eastern Woodlands group/tribe of Native Americans League of Nations practiced The Great Law of Peace, which said they should not kill each other.
1. Who are the Sioux?
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2. Who are the Iroquois?
This region of Native Americans had a government that was similar to the United States government because it had council members that represented all the people.
Also, this region had WOMEN as the owners of the longhouses.
This region PRAYED for the animals they killed for food, too.
Which is the Eastern Woodlands region?
1. This type of Eastern Woodlands and Southeast Native Americans home was a round building with a round top made of tree log wooden frames covered with hides, woven mats, or sheets of birch bark.
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2. This type of multi-family Eastern Woodlands and Southeast Native Americans home was a long rectangular permanent building made with wooden poles from young trees and covered with tree bark.
1. What is a wigwam?
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2. What is a longhouse?
These are reasons why food was so abundant in the Pacific Northwest Coast region.
What are the Pacific Northwest Coastal region had vast forest full of animals to hunt and foods to gather; the forest had rivers and lakes full of fish, and this region was along the Pacific Ocean, which had lots of different types of seafood to eat?
1. This is a person that is the leader of a Great Plains village, who was a man elected by the Village Council.
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2. This is a person that is the medicine man of the clan that the people believed helped control spiritual forces and used magic to cure the sick.
1. Who is a chief?
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2. Who is a Shaman?
This region of Native Americans had no laws or organized society.
Also, this region used dog sleds to travel in frozen conditions.
Which is the Arctic region?
1. This region would roll giant snowballs down the mountains and used irrigation systems to water their crops.
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2. This is the animal that this region depended on for survival.
1. Which is the Southwest region?
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2. What is the buffalo?
1. This type of Arctic Native Americans home was made with rocks, whalebones, and sod.
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2. This type of Arctic Native Americans home was dome-shaped and made from thick blocks of ice and snow to insulate and support the home.
1. What is a sod house?
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2. What is an igloo?
These are reasons why living in the Great Basin region was very difficult compared to the other regions.
What are natural resources are scarce in this region, and everyone had to contribute to getting food because survival in the winter depended on how much food was stored?
1. This is a place where the Southwest Native Americans worshiped their religion.
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2. This is an object that the Southwest Native Americans made to represent the spirits, which were used to teach the children about their religion.
1. What is a Kiva?
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2. What is a Kachina Doll?
This region of Native Americans had NO formal government
Also, this region's women were GREAT at weaving baskets.
Which is the Great Basin region?
1. This region had wealthy people as the rulers of the clan.
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2. This was highly valued by the people of this region.
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3. This is who in this region received the gifts at a potlatch.
1. Which is the Pacific Northwest Coast region?
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2. What is generosity?
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3. Who are the guests?
1. This type of Southeast Native Americans home was a platform home made of logs, the bottom floor was three feet off the ground for protection from flooding and animals in the Coastal region of the Southeast.
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2. This type of portable Great Plains Native Americans home was made from buffalo hide stretched over poles that has paintings on the outside with the door facing east.
1. What is a chickee?
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2. What is a tipi/tepee/teepee?
These are ways the Great Plains and Southeast Native Americans demonstrate being resourceful with what they ate.
What are the Great Plains natives used all parts of the buffalo besides eating the meat; for example,the stomach was used for making medicine bags, bowls, and buckets; the hides were used for coverings of tipis, blankets, and clothing; the buffalo chips were used to fuel fire and as a form of baby powder, and the hooves of the buffalo were used to make glue?
What are the Southeast natives wood use all parts of the animals they ate, too; for example, they ate the turtles eggs, meat, and used their shells for making rattles?