Native American Homes
Native American Groups
Vocabulary
Essential Questions
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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
This means to use the resources (land, animals, water) in your environment and surroundings in order to survive.
What is specialization?
100
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.
100
This tribed lived in the Great Plains. They ate maize and buffalo. They used buffalo hides for their clothing, as well as for their tipis.
What is Pawnee?
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 Artic Reagion, 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?
200
A grian 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.
What is maize?
200
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, the Kwakiutl used the Pacific Ocean for food and forests for clothing and shelter.
200
A broad, falt area of high land.
What is a plateau?
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
Articles made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is pottery?
300
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villiages, 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
Give me 3 facts you learned during your research project.
What is show the teacher.
400
A temporary house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.
What is an igloo?
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
A book of maps.
What is an atlas?
400
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?
Kwakiutl - forests and ocean, cold winters and moderate summers, trees for homes and clothing, potlatches for celebrations Inuit - ice and snow, extreme cold, Artic Ocean for food, caribou for clothing Pawnee - travelled on flat land to hunt buffalo for food, clothing, and housing Seminoles - lived in Florida where it is mostly hot and muggy, swamps, lakes, and forests, used palm trees for clothing and chickees Nez Perce - lived in plateau area between the plains and northwest, cold winters and moderate summers, ate buffalo, wore buck skins Hopi- lived in southwest desert area where it was hot and dry, near rivers they grew crops and others hunted, they used the dirt and sand to make pueblos
400
What animal did the Hopie help herd?
Sheep for wool clothing
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
How did the physical features (Great Plains, Atlantic Coastal Plains, Great Basin), affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
The Pawnee lived in the Great Plains where they could travel after buffalo. The Seminole lived along the Atlantic Coastal Plains in the warm muggy areas. The Nez Perce lived in the Great Basin with the plateau.
500
In what type of shape were Pawnee houses built?
They were built in DOME shapes for the villiages where they covered it with strips of grassy earth to keep the homes hot or cool. The tipis were in a a-fremae shape for travelling for buffalo.
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