Cultural Regions
Located in what is now Alaska, this homeland includes communities in Canada, Greenland, and the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia.
What is the Arctic Region? Also: What is Inuit Nunavut (Translation: The Place Where the Inuit Live)
While earth lodges were typical dwellings for the Inuit in summer, these dwellings are often thought of as the iconic shelter the group is known for. Carved from blocks of snow and build into a dome and given a tunnel-door ...
What is an Igloo?
This artistic sculpture was carved from a tree trunk and pictured animals who were spiritually important to the people for whom it was carved. It was often installed outside the plank house of the people it belonged to.
What is a totem pole?
These plants are uniquely suited to growing together: corn grows straight and tall and bean vines climb it. Squash plants grow at the bottom: low, covering the ground with their big, wide leaves, keeping the weeds down.
What are the 3 sisters?
Name some tribes of the Eastern Woodlands
Who are the ... Abenaki, Cayuga, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy): Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, Huron / Wyandot, Lenni Lenape / Delaware, Massachuset, Mi'kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Ojibwe, Wampanoag
These home were found in the southwest region. They were made out of stone and adobe (clay bricks) and could be from four to five stories high. They looked like apartment buildings
What are pueblos?
Invented by the Inuit to travel across snow without sinking, these are now used by people all over the world for the same purpose.
What are snowshoes?
Plains Peoples' nomadic lives revolved around these large herd animals. Their flesh was protein-rich food. Their skins became clothing and house-coverings.
What are buffalo?
Name some tribes of the Northwest Coast
Who are the ... Kwaikutl, Bella Coola, Haida, Tsimishan, Tilamook, Tlingit, Nootka, Chinook, Makah, Salish ...
Name given to areas where people of similar cultures settled.
What are cultural regions?
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?
In winter, it was important to be able navigate through snow. Sometimes, snow was so bright or blizzards so fierce, it was hard to see. Bonus if you remember the construction material!
What are snow goggles? (Walrus ivory!)
The peoples of the Northwest Coast lived in a land of abundance. These fish, in particular, formed a major anchor of their diet. They would swim upstream to spawn in Spring, and the people would catch them in great numbers, then dry and smoke them for eating around the year.
What are salmon?
Name some tribes of the Great Plains
Arapaho, Sioux (Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota), Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow, and Comanche. Other tribes included the Pawnee, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Kiowa, and Plains Cree
In various ways, most indigenous groups saw the world as a place where humans were an integral part of the entire natural world, not separate from it. Everything in this world - animals, plants, mountains, waterways were understood to have spirits. Most groups believed in one being who invented the world for all creatures to share, a 'Great Spirit.' All indigenous people performed various ceremonies of gratitude, giving thanks for the many gifts given to them for their use - e.g., harvest ceremonies, spring planting ceremonies. This is a form of ...
What is religion? (also: Cultural practice, Spirituality)
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. These were often summer homes. In winter, more permanent structures were built - large and long enough to house an extended family, with two or more firepits (and smoke holes).
What are Wigwams and Longhouses?
These container were used by tribes in the Southwest to store food and water. They often had geometric designs and images of living creatures painted on them.
What are clay pots?
Name some of the important foods of the people of the Eastern Woodlands.
What are deer, 3 sisters, fish, gathered berries and other roots, seeds and nuts
European colonists named these people "Eskimo," meaning "Eater of Raw Fish." A better name, the one the people themselves have used (and which, in fact, means "The People" is ...
What is Inuit?
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 region?
Landforms Bonus! A flat topped hill area with steep sides. Was a geographical feature of the Southwest cultural region.
What is a mesa? (Ok, also Butte and Plateau (though plateaus usually extend a wider distance (miles, as opposed to acres))
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 of trees. So much lighter and more portable than carved, 'dugout' canoes, these were state-of-the art vehicles!
What are birch bark canoes?
Seals, whales, fish, birds and their eggs, caribou ... very few fruits or vegetables (roots), but in the summer, gathered berries and sometimes roots ... Whose diet is this?
Who are the Inuit?
Name some tribes of the Southwest.
Who are the Anasazi, Hopi, Navajo/Diné, Pueblo, Apache?