Native American Homes
A cone-shaped tent, usually covered with animal skins, used as a home, especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.
What is a tipi?
It is believed that this group of people first came to the Americas by crossing over a land bridge located near the Bering Strait.
Who are the Clovis Peoples?
This region is mostly desert with low grasses and it is surrounded by mountains. It has few natural resources.
What is the Great Basin?
How does environment affect where you live?
Possible answers: You have to have food, water, and shelter in order to survive. Therefore, you will choose a location where you can find these things. The Pawnee traveled so they could find buffalo to eat and survive. The Inuit built Igloos during the winter to survive.
Articles made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is pottery?
A house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.
What is a igloo?
This theory of migration is based on the idea that people traveled to the Americas by boat.
What is Coastal Migration?
This region has a rugged coastline, arid deserts, and high mountain ranges. Because of these physical variations, this region had three different styles of dwellings.
What is the California region?
How did the environment affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Native Americans could only use the resources that were in its environment.
People in the Northwest, Northeast, Plateau, Southeast, and Subarctic Regions all used wood as a primary resource when constructing their homes. This geographical feature made this possible.
What are forests?
In recent years, fossilized footprints have been found in White Sands National Park. Scientists tested multiple samples from 3 different types of material to determine that humans were in North America earlier than previously believed. In fact, the evidence suggests that people have been in the Americas for _________________ years.
What is 23,000?
This region had deserts, canyons, and mountains. Dwellings in this region needed to provide protection against extreme temperature fluctuations and strong winds. Some types of dwellings include multi-story adobe building, hogans, and cliff dwellings.
What is the Southwest region?
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villiages, while others remained nomads?
Some groups had to travel with the food.
This is a type of farming where corn, beans, and squash are planted together. It was a practice used in many different regions but quite common among tribes in the Northeast Region.
What is Three Sisters Farming?
This is a type of dwelling made by the Seminole Indians of the Southeast. It is built on a raised platform to protect people from the hot, humid, and swampy environment as well as from animals like snakes and alligators.
What is an chickee?
This is the name given to the type of spearhead used by early people to hunt mammoths. They have been discovered by the bones of mammoths almost 13,000 years old.
What are clovis points?
The people living in this region led a very nomadic lifestyle. One of their main sources of food was bison. Consequently they moved often to follow the herds living in this region.
What are the Great Plains?
A scientific theory “is an explanation for why things work or how they happen.”
Why do multiple theories about how peoples came to the Americas exist?
As new evidence is found, theories need to be refined and/or new theories need to be developed.
Native Americans used a variety of tools in their everyday lives. These tools may have been made from wood, stone, or ____________.
What is animal bones or antlers?
Native Americans in the Northeast made their homes from wood and bark. One type of home in particular were large communal structures where a number of families lived together.
What are longhouse?
This is the name given to the giant boulders found in Canada that mark a passageway into North America.
What are erratics?
People living in this region were hunters and gatherers. They hunted moose, caribou, beaver, and bear. They also fished for salmon, trout, and whitefish. This region has long, dark winters and short, cool summers.
What is the Subarctic Region?
Give three examples of how Native Americans used the natural resources found in their environments.
Answers will vary
Eva is the name given to a skeleton found in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists believe Eva lived around 13,500 years ago. Scientists also found a skeleton along the Columbia River near Seattle that they believe is over 8,000 years old. What is the name given to this skeleton?
What is Kennewick Man?