Northwest Coast
What ocean is closest to the Northwest Coast region?
Pacific Ocean
True or False, the Southwest is the driest cultural region in US?
True.
What are 2 physical features of the Plateau region?
Flatlands, rolling hills, and gorges.
True or false - The Great Plains region was east of the Plateau region.
True
Where did the Native Americans settle in Eastern Woodlands?
in the hills, valleys, and along its seacoasts.
What land features did we read about in the Southeast region?
River valleys, mountains, coastal plains, and swamps.
How many tribes did we discuss that lived in the Northwest Coast region?
3
What are 3 of the physical features in the Southwest region?
Mountains, mesas (flat-topped mountain or hill), canyons, and deserts.
True or false, the Plateau region gets a lot of rainfall?
False. The rainfall in the Plateau region is light.
Name 3 animals that lived among the Great Plains.
Bonus points if you can tell me what animal the Native Americans identified as the most important creature on the plains.
Pronghorn, antelope, deer, and bears.
Bonus: Bison
How many seasons do the Eastern Woodlands have?
Bonus: name 3 environmental features.
4 seasons
Includes cold winters and hot summers. Lots of rain.
What were the swamplands of Southern Florida called?
Bonus: What was the name of the Native American tribe that lived in this location?
Everglades
Seminoles
Name 3 types of wildlife in the Northwest region.
I will take any of the following answers:
- Fish (e.g., salmon), whales, deer, elk, mountain goats, bear, wolves
Tell me 2 facts about the climate in the Southwest region.
1) little rainfall
2) Often have extreme temperatures
3) Days were scorching hot
5) Nights were freezing cold
6) Long hot summers
7) Short mild winters
What did the Yakama women use to make clothing?
Local grasses
What did the Dakotas tribe make their teepees out of?
Bonus points if you can tell me what men did to the outside of the teepees.
Bison hides.
Bonus: men painted scenes from daily life.
Name 2 of the types of trees grown in the woodland forests.
Bonus points if you can name the third mentioned in our reading.
Birch, oak,
Maple
What kind of animals can you find in these swamplands?
Bonus points name at least 1 type of plant found in the swamplands.
Deer, fish, alligators, and snakes.
razor sharp saw grass, giant ferns, cypress, and palmetto trees.
What natural resources were used to build houses in the Kwakiutls (kwah-kee-YOO-tells) tribe?
Wood from the forest. They built huge wooden structures that served as homes for several families.
What word was used to describe Native Americans who wander or move around a lot?
Bonus points if you can tell me the name of the Native American tribe in this region that were this word.
Nomadic
Apaches
True or False, the Yakams built their winter homes above ground?
Bonus points if you can tell me details about the home.
False - they built their winter homes partly underground to escape from the cold.
Bonus - the home was a circular hole, three to six feet deep, with a grass mat roof. To help keep the heat inside, the Yakamas covered the mat with earth (dirt).
Name 3 reasons why Bison hide was so important to the Dakota tribe.
They used bison hide to make warm blankets to wear in the winter, they used bison hides to make teepees, bison were used as a food source. Warriors made shields from bison hides.
Wigwams
What was the name of the Seminoles homes?
Chickees
What was the name of the cedar poles that the Tlingits and the Kwakiutls carved figures of animals, humans, and spirits into?
Totem poles
Were the Hopis Nomadic?
Bonus points if you can tell me 2/4 crops they raised.
No - they lived in villages and learned to farm with little water.
They raised crops like corn, beans, squash, and cotton.
Name the important food source for people in the Plateau region that was mentioned in our reading.
10 bonus points if you can name another food source.
Camas root.
Bonus: berries
What was painted on the front of Warriors shields?
Bonus points if you can tell me what materials were used to decorate their shields.
Men painted their shields with scenes from their dreams. They believed these images came from heaven and protected them from harm.
Bonus: fur and feathers
How did the Algonquins make their homes?
The men bent small trees into a dome shaped frame and tied them together. The women covered the frames with birch bark or mats made from plants.
What was the structure of the Seminoles homes/how were they built?
The chickees were on wooden platforms three feet above ground. They had wooden posts that supported a slanted roof made of palm tree leaves. To allow breezes to blow through, the chickee had no walls. This was a good design for the hot climate.
What did the Kwakiutls make their clothes out of to help them stay dry in the Northwest Coast's wet climate?
Cedar Bark
What did the Native Americans in the Southwest region use to build houses?
Bonus points if you can tell me what the second material consists of.
Stone and Adobe (clay and straw baked into hard brick).
What tool did the Yakamas develop to help them dig?
A stick that was curved and pointed at one end and attached a short handle of animal horn or bone to the other end.
What did the Algonquins use to make their form of transportation?
The Algonquins made light canoes from several types of trees. They built cedar frames, covered it with birch tree bark, sewed the bark together with spruce roots, and used maple wood to hold the boat's sides together.
Why did the Seminoles wear leggings as clothing?
Bonus: what were the leggings made out of?
They wore them to protect their legs from sharp saw grass and mosquitos.
They were made out of deer hides
What else did the Kwakiutls use cedar bark to help them make? AND What was that tool used for?
What did the Seminoles use for transportation?
Bonus: what tool did they use to hollow out this form of transportation?
They used a flat-bottomed dugout canoe from tree logs.
They hollowed them out with stone and bone scrapers.