Cultural Regions
Match the Region
Shelters
Tools
Clothing
100
Located between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains. Hot summers and freezing rivers. Large rivers provide water to region. Trees grew only near the mountains, other areas had thick grasses and plants. The Yakimas lived in this area.
What is the Plateau Region
100

Cedar Wood homes with Totem Poles were made by Native Americans in this region

What is Northwest Coast?

100
This shelter was found in the Southeast region. They were dwellings built on platforms three feet above the ground. The platform protected the houses from swampy ground. The roof was made of palmetto leaves and there were no walls.
What is a chickee?
100
This tool was used to catch fish. It was constructed of cedar bark.
What is a fish trap?
100
Made from the thread of cedar bark which was waterproof. Made an article of clothing that kept people dry.
What is a cedar-bark cape?
200
Found on a narrow strip of land along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California. Dense fir, pine and cedar forest grew right to the oceans shore. The climate was mild but the area received heavy rain almost all year.
What is the Northwest Coast
200

Deerskin leggings were made and worn by people of this region

What is the Southeast?

200
These home were found in the southwest region. They were made out of stone and adobe and could be from four to five stories high. They looked like apartment buildings
What are pueblos
200
Used by the Pomo in the California-Intermountain region theses tools which were made out of woven grasses and decorated with shells, beads and feathers were used store items.
What are grass baskets?
200
Item worn by native americans in the southwest region to protect them from the sharp saw grass and misquitoes. The were made out deer hides
What are leggings
300
This was the driest region. It stretched from the southwestern United States to Northern Mexico. Days were hot and nights were cold. The area contained mountains, flat topped mesas, canyons and deserts.
What is the Southwest Region?
300
The people of the southeast needed the cyprus dugout canoe for these reasons...

Answers may vary

300
These homes were used by plains indians. The were made from wooden poles and the skins of animals. The shelters were portable and easy to put up and take down.
What are teepees
300

This was a hardwood stick that was curved and pointed at the end. It could have a short handle from an animal horn attached. It was used to harvest camas and other roots by the Yakima of the Plateau region.

What is a digging stick?

300

Warriors from the plains used this item made of buffalo skins to keep them warm in the cold winters.

What is the buffalo blanket?

400
This region extended from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River Valley. From north to south it stretched from Canada to Texas. This area was mostly treeless grassland with cold winters and hot summers.
What is the Great Plains?
400

Woven cotton dresses were made by this region?

What is the Southwest?

400
In the Eastern Woodlands the structures people lived in were made by bending small trees into a dome shaped frame. This frame was covered with mats made from birch bark trees.
What are Wigwams
400
These container were used by tribes in the Southwest to store food and water. They would have geometric designs and images of living creatures painted on them.
What clay pots?
400
The native Americans weaved local grasses to create this item of clothing. They were cone shaped but flat on top and decorated with designs.
What are woven basket hats?
500
This region stretched from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean. It ran from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River Valley. Native Americans settled amongst its hills and mountains, in valleys and along sea coasts.
What is The eastern woodlands?
500

Identify the clothing of the Northwest coast and why they needed it.

What is the Waterproof cedar bark cape and answers may vary, but should be connected to the heavy rain and cold.

500

There shelters were made use the digging stick to stay out of the cold and wind.

What Underground Winter Hut?

500
The Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands used these for transportation on water. They were constructed of a cedar frame which was covered with the bark from birch bark trees.
What are birch bark canoes?
500

The people of the California Inter-Mountain region made this clothing using natural resources found near the coast.

What are clamshell necklaces?

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