The First Americans
A time when the Earth's climate was very cold, with massive ice sheets covering North America and Eurasia.
What is The Ice Age?
Their name means “pierced nose” in French. They call themselves the Nimi’ipu , meaning “the people.”
What is Nez Perce?
This word is used to describe people who move from one place to another as the seasons change or to follow a food source.
What is nomadic?
This word is used to describe a way of living for a group of people. This includes their religion, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
This is a huge desert region- many descendants of the anasazi lived here . They built homes from a type of sun-dried mud brick called adobe
What is Southwest?
The first Americans used this to migrate to North America.
What is a land bridge?
This tribe is known for the winter count that they would keep each year.
What is the Nakota tribe?
This word means to change to fit the environment. For example, you ______ to the winter by wearing a jacket and warmer clothes.
What is adapt?
This word is used when describing an oversimplified, fixed, and often inaccurate belief about Native Americans, and groups of people in general.
What is a stereotype?
This cultural region had a dry climate with very little rain. Natural resources were scarce.
What is southwest?
This is the continent the first Americans came from when migrating to North America.
What is Asia?
This tribe is known as "storytellers" and often told stories using animals and nature.
What is Cherokee?
This is a visual record of history where a single, memorable event from each year is depicted with a pictograph on the skin of a buffalo
What is a winter count?
An extinct species that existed during the Ice Age, known for being very large and having long horns.
What is a wooly mammoth?
This cultural region is known for its swamps and hot, humid climate. Many of its natives were expert farmers.
What is southeast?
This empire was known for their advanced calendar, hieroglyphic writing, city-states, pyramid temples, astronomy, and mathematics
What is the Inca?
This tribe is named after the dark-colored bottoms of the moccasins they wore on their feet.
What is Blackfoot tribe?
This is something made my humans that helps archaeologists learn about the past.
What is an artifact?
The Aztec discovered this delicious sweet that we still love today!
What is chocolate?
This animal was considered to be sacred to the tribes of the Great Plains. They used it for clothing, shelter, tools and food.
What is a bison or buffalo?
This is the name of the city that was built in the middle of a lake.
What is tenothitlan?
There are _______ recognized tribes in the United States.
What is 570?
A social group of people united by shared language, culture, ancestry, or territory
What is a tribe?
The three main reasons that the Aztec Empire died over time?
What is diseases, guns/steel, and leadership?
All seven of the cultural regions that Native Americans inhabited.
What is Northwest Coast, California-Intermountain, Southwest, Plateau, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands, and Southeast?