Tribes of MT
This tribe’s name was confused with the sign for a flat head.
Who are the Salish?
These people moved through this land from the Great Lakes area and Canada. Their names mean “original people” and “Those who speak the same language.”
Who are the Chippewa and Cree?
Berries mixed with bison meat and fat.
What is Pemmican?
A native plant used for traditional ceremonies.
What is Sweetgrass?
Which of the following tribes did not move to Montana in the 1800’s? Choose between Flathead, Nez Perce, or Assiniboine.
Who are Nez Perce?
This tribe called themselves “generous people”, though others called them “stonecookers.”
Who are the Assiniboine?
These people are a confederacy composed of three groups descended from the Algonquian people of the east coast.
Who are the Blackfeet?
Plains people gained spiritual understanding by fasting alone on a…
What is a vision quest?
Were bands or clans organized into family groups and led by women?
What is class?
Name two major changes in Native lifestyle that came from gaining horses.
What are more possessions, trade, conflict, individual hunting. Women spent more time processing food. larger tipis.
This tribe survived by fishing salmon in the Great Basin and hunting bison on the plains. Their name was confused with the sign for “snake”.
Who are the Shoshone?
These people migrated across the continent before settling in Wyoming and Montana. They are the “children of the large-beaked bird".
Who are the Crow?
Part Indian, Part European people.
Who are Metis?
The various cultures that migrated to the plains made their living by…
What is hunting and gathering?
What factor allowed certain tribes to become the most powerful after European diseases killed many native people.
What is the tribes with the most survivors.
This tribe calls themselves the “white clay” or “upright” people. Their name was confused for the sign for “fat bellies”.
Who are the Gros Ventre?
Their name is an exonym that comes from the Dakota Sioux word Šahíyena, meaning "little Šahíya". In their own language, they call themselves Notameohmésêhese or Ohmésêhese, which means "Northern Eaters" or simply "Eaters," referencing their history as great hunters.
Who are the Northern Cheyenne?
The pattern of harvesting food according to the times of year
What is Seasonal Round?
List three things that every tribe had, but which each tribe made unique...
What are: rituals, tipis, clothing, moccasin designs, social structure, and hair styles.
What is it called when something that occurs between tribes?
What is intertribal?
This tribe’s name means “eating food plain”.
Who are the Kootenai?
The French named this tribe for the shell earrings they wore.
Who are the Pend d’Oreille?
People who are native to a particular land.
Who are Indigenous?
People who don’t move around are called...
What is sedentary?
List three valuable trade items that were carried into and out of Montana before European contact of any sort.
What are Pemmican, sweetgrass, native copper, churt, pipestone, and flint.