Traditional 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?
This tribe was originally from the southeast. They originated in Florida. They ate fish and small animals. They made their clothes from cotton and trees. Their homes were called "chickees." Now they are also located in Oklahoma.
What is Seminole?
A grain which has kernels which is often yellow, but can be various shades of red and brown enclosed in a leafy husk. It was an important food source for many Native populations.
What is maize or corn?
Historically in the US, why did some Native American nations create permanent villages, while others remained nomads?
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.
Costal - water, fish, etc.
Forest - trees, fresh water, etc
The Pawnee traveled so they could find buffalo to eat and survive. Plains natives had teepees to travel. The Inuit built Igloos during the winter to survive. Eastern Natives grew corn and harvested berries.
Some groups like the Plains Native Americans had to travel with the food. The Pawnee followed the buffalo from place to place for food.
Some groups like the Makuh stayed on the costal areas for plentiful seafood, deer, etc.
Cherokee, Pueblo (Ancestral Pueblo), Iroquois, Hopi, Maya, Aztec, Inca, and the tribes of the Mississippi Valley who cultivated crops like corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, and pumpkins, depending on their region and climate.
The areas of Idyllwild and Palm Springs are the traditional and ancestral home of this Native American community/tribe.
What is the Cahuilla?
This kind of home was traditionally built by the Seminole Indians. It was made of palmetto bushes and cypress tree logs.
What is a chickee?
This tribe lives in the Artic Reagion, near the Artic Ocean. They traditionally 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 social event or ceremony used by the Pacific Northwest Native Americans or by Native Americans across the country. It usually marked important life events and cultural heritage - such as feasts, memorials, marriage, etc.
Two options- guess either one...
What is a potlatch or a powwow?
Native American communities have always prioritized taking care of their people. Recently they developed many ways to bring prosperity to their people including tourism, selling art, and more.
This modern form of entertainment is illegal in many states but if you're lucky there is one of these near you because they are legal on some tribal lands.
What are casinos or resort casinos?
Casinos run by Native Americans occupy a special place in the overall casino and gambling industry; because Indian reservations are considered independent nations, gambling is mostly unrestricted. Gaming is also a major source of desperately needed revenue for tribes struggling economically.
During World War II, this Native American tribe's language was used by "code talkers" for coded, secret communication because the Germans and Japanese were not familiar with it.
What is the Navajo language (Dine)?
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 is from the southwest. Traditionally 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 or could also be Navajo/Dine?
A federal area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government usually holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.
What is a Native American reservation?
FYI - Approximately 56.2 million acres are held in trust by the United States for various Indian tribes and individuals. There are approximately 326 Indian land areas in the U.S. administered as federal Indian reservations (i.e., reservations, pueblos, rancherias, missions, villages, communities, etc.). The largest is the 16 million-acre Navajo Nation Reservation located in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
True or False - Native Americans who are a part of a tribe recognized by the US government can legally claim citizenship of two nations.
Presently all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States are by law citizens. Native Americans have had the privilege of voting in national elections since 1924; however, until recently some states prohibited Native Americans from voting in local elections. New Mexico, for example, did not extend the vote to Native Americans until 1962. Most native people, of course, also are members of their respective independent Native nations.
An independent Native nation has the right to form its own government, adjudicate legal cases within its borders, levy taxes within its borders, establish its membership, and decide its own future fate. Native American tribes have the authority to govern themselves and establish their laws and customs within the borders of their reservations. (Native American Rights Assn)
In 1990, US President _________ signed a joint congressional resolution designating the month of _______ National American Indian Heritage Month.
President Choices -
George Herbert Walker Bush, Sr
George W Bush
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Month - September, October, or November
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating the month of November National American Indian Heritage Month.
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 mud.
What is Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Nez Perce?
This means to use the resources (land, animals, water) in your environment and surroundings in order to survive.
What is specialization?
Each team - think back to your reports at the start of the year and give an example of specialization for two different Native American communities.
When the original settlers came to the area that is now the United States they made these agreements with Native American communities. The US government continued to make these agreements and is working to honor them more fully today.
What are treaties?
This infamous forced march of Native Americans across the US - mostly from Florida or other southeastern states to Oklahoma is called by this sad title.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" - the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole - between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
Many Kwakiutls, Makah, Salish and other Native Americans of the Northwest as well as some of the Northeastern tribes such as the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Huron, Algonquian peoples: The Lenni Lenape, lived in these wooden structures made from tree wood.
What are longhouses or plankhouses?
This tribe is from the northwest. They have access to the Pacific Ocean, so traditionally 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, Tlingit, Makah, Salish, Chimakumm, Chinook, Tillamook, and others?
any are accepted
Historically, this US policy toward the Native Americans exemplified in the Native boarding schools where traditions were discouraged and Native children were encouraged (forced) to live like the European cultures.
What is assimilation?
Name one type of government that exists in the United States in Native American communities today?
What is a tribal council, tribal government?
Native Americans have the inherent power to govern all matters involving their members, as well as a range of issues in their communities. The essence of tribal sovereignty is the ability to govern and to protect and enhance the health, safety, and welfare of tribal citizens within tribal territory.Native American governments are self-governing entities with the power to make laws, enforce them, and protect their people. These governments are also known as tribal governments.
According to the US government, this percentage of American citizens identify as Native American...
2%
15%
30%
What is 2%?
There are 5.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives making up approximately 2 percent of the U.S. population. There are 14 states with more than 100,000 American Indian or Alaska Native residents.