North America Tribe Locations
This Native American region is found in the “great plains” of North America. east of the Rocky Mountains and west of Mississippi River.
What is the plains region?
This is the region between Northern Mexico and modern day Nicaragua
What is Mesoamerica?
This is the name of the system of churches throughout northern Mexico and modern day California.
What is the Mission system?
Many modern day tribes in North America live on these.
What are reservations?
There are over this many native languages in North America
What is 150?
This area is found along the east coast of North America, east of the Mississippi River, and partially goes into Canada.
What is the Eastern Woodland region?
There were over this many languages in Mesoamerica
What is over 125?
After colonizers come to North America this percentage of the population will be killed off or die due to new diseaes.
What is 90%?
In total less than this many people live on modern day reservations in North America.
What is less than a quarter of all native people?
This state has the largest population of Native Americans in the U.S.
Double points: include what percent of that states population is Native American
What is Alaska?
This cultural region is just below the arctic
What is the Subarctic?
This Mesoamerican group conquered most of Mesoamerica before the arrival of the Spanish in South America.
Who are the Aztecs?
This successful revolt saw Native Tribes regain control over their land from colonizers, if only for a brief period.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Reservations fall under the authority of this.
What are the local tribal governments?
This is the northern most cultural region of North American tribes.
What is the Arctic?
This Mesoamerican group is known for their monumental architecture as well as their carvings of large heads to represent important leaders.
Who are the Olmecs?
This was the purpose of the Mission system
What is to convert native people to Christianity and teach them the ways of the Spanish? (in practice this lead to the deaths of enslavement of countless native people in these missions)
These are two of the modern issues that tribes in North America face.
What are (any two of the following)...
Poor Resources on their reservations
Contaminated Water, Air pollution, and Mining Waste
Dislocation- they have been removed from their native land and pushed to small reservations
High rates of suicide High rates of homelessness
Destruction of culture and death of their languages
?
In this North American cultural region, food was so plentiful that there was not a single recorded famine to have ever happened before the arrival of colonizers.
What is California?
This ancient city, created by native people in Mesoamerica, can be found not far from Mexico's capital city.
What is Teotihuacan?