Native American Homes
Native American Groups
Vocabulary
Essential Questions
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100
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?
100
This tribe was from the southeast. They originated in Floriday. They ate fish and small animals. They made their clothes from cotton and trees. Their homes were called "chickees."
What is Seminole?
100

What animal did the Native Americans call "Tatanka"?

What is a buffalo?

100

The event where the U.S. army in 1838 moved the Cherokees to reservations in present day Oklahoma?

What is the "trail of Tears"?

100

This Nez Perce chief led his people to the border of Canada from Idaho before surrendering to the U.S> army under Gen. O.O. Howard. "I will fight no more forever!"

Who is Chief Joseph

200
This kind of home was built by the Seminole Indians. It was made of palmetto bushes and cypress tree logs.
What is a chickee?
200

This tribe lived in the Mississippi Valley, They were known as  the "mound builders." The lower class were known as "stinkers" and had a King as their leader. They had a city known as Cahokia where anywhere from 10,00 to 40,000 Native Americans lived. 

Who were the Natchez tribe?

200

What three crops did the Native Americans call The Three Sisters?

What was maize, beans and squash?

200

The early Native Americans that lived in cliff dwellings like Meas Verde wer known as Anasazi. What does this word mean when it is translated?

What is the "Ancient Ones"?

200

How did the Native Americas arrive to the American continent?

What is the Land Bridge between Asia and present-day Alaska?

300
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?
300
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?
300

Bricks made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat. - used to build houses

What is adobe?

300

Why did some Native American nations create permanent villages, while others remained nomads?

Some groups like the Pawnee had to travel with the food. The Pawnee followed the buffalo from place to place for food.

300

Name THREE ways of transporation used by the Native Americans

What is horse, travois, birchbark canoe, bull boats, snowshoes, dugout canoes, sleds/toboggans, travois, 

400

The homes of the Iroquois made out birch bark 

What is an longhouse

400
This tribe lived near the plateau region, between plains and the northwest. They ate moose, bear, and salmon. Their clothes were made of animal skins, mainly buckskin. They built their homes out of mude.
What is Nez Perce?
400

What the Native Americans called their God?

What is "Mother Earth" or "The Great Spirit?"

400

Why was it that the Native Americans and whites in time not get along with each other?

Different views about the land.

400

What Native American story did I read to you the first day about how this animal got its strips?

What is a chipmunk?

500
Many Kwakiutls lived in these wooden structures made from tree wood. They were also known as longhouses.
What are plankhouses?
500
This tribe was from the northwest. They had access to the Pacific Ocean, so they ate a lot of fish and whales. They also had access to huge forests with lots of trees. They used these trees to make clothing as well as their plankhouses.
What is the Kwakiutl?
500
A social event or ceremony used by the Kwakuitl Tribe. It usually marked important life events such as feasts, memorials, marriage, etc.
What is a potlatch?
500

Name two animals that many Native Americans domesticated? 

What is horses, dogs and the turkey

500

A spirit of an ancestor or something in nature often represented by dolls - especially used by the Hopi.

What is a Kachina?

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