Native American Homes
This kind of home was built by the Hopi Indians. It was made of stone and mud and stood several stories high.
What is pueblo?
Which region best fits this description:
treeless grasslands
Dense grasses
large buffalo herds
Great Plains
The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of what region?
Great Plains
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.
How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?
They walked from Asia across the Bering Strait Land Bridge
This kind of home was built by the Seminole Indians. It was made of palmetto bushes and cypress tree logs.
What is a chickee?
This tribe lived in the Artic Region, near the Artic Ocean. They ate fish, seals, and whales. They made their clothes from animal skins with fur and duck feathers. They needed their clothes to stay warm.
What is Inuit?
A grain which has kernels which is often yellow, but can be various shades of red and brown enclosed in a leafy husk. It is an important food source.
Maize/Corn
How does the environment affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Native Americans could only use the resources that were in its environment. For example, Inuit used seal skins and caribou as their main resources.
A broad, falt area of high land.
What is a plateau?
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? or teepee
This tribe was from the southwest. They ate beans, pumpkins, and rabbits. The tribes that lived close to the Colorado River farmed, while the ones further from the river hunted. Their clothes were made from wool and animal skins. Their houses were called pueblos.
What is Hopi?
Articles made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is pottery?
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villages, while others remained nomads?
Some groups had to travel with the food.The ones in better climates, more suitable to grow crops created villages.
Give me 3 facts you learned during your research project.
Answers will vary
A temporary house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.
What is an igloo?
Which region has the largest freshwater lakes?
A) Northwest Coast B) California C) Plateau D) Eastern Woodlands
Eastern Woodlands
Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for what?
planting and harvesting crops
Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering
limited food and water
To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to...
adapt to their environment
Many Iroquois lived in houses 50 feet long by 18 feet tall made of tree bark. What are these houses called?
Longhouses
What region/group would modern day Kentucky belong?
Northeast /Eastern Woodlands
Native Americans in the Southeast built...
towns clustered around large earthen mounds
Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building..
thick-walled adobe houses
Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from...
rivers and the sea