Homes
A traditional conical tent, constructed from a framework of wooden poles covered with buffalo hides or, later, canvas.
What is a tipi or teepee?
A synonym for corn.
What is maize?
A system of what people believe?
What are traditions or customs?
The most common transportation, done on land without animals.
Terms used for Native Americans that hunted and gathered.
What is a hunter-gatherer.
A dome-shaped dwelling traditionally built from blocks of snow.
What is an igloo?
This animal made hunting much easier for the Native Americans.
What is a horse?
The Southwest region, known for their beautiful jewelry of this shade of blue.
What is turquoise?
Name for people who would move from place to place in search of their next hunt.
What is a nomad?
Term used to Natives from the Arctic that was disrespectful to their heritage.
What is an Eskimo?
A long rectangular building.
What is a longhouse?
A long period of no rain.
What is a drought?
A grand feast where the host would give expensive gifts to the guests.
What is a potlatch?
A small axe that can be thrown.
What is a tomahawk?
The Northwest was known for these decorations carved out of cedar wood with their crests telling a three part story.
What are totem poles?
Structures built using sun-dried bricks made from a mixture of clay, sand, and straw.
What are adobe homes?
Corn, beans and squash were known as this.
What are the Three Sisters?
Celebrations of prayer to the Great Spirit.
What are powwows?
A lightweight, narrow, pointed boat used for travel on water, also known as a dugout of the Northwest Coast.
What is a canoe?
A home made of weaving river cane, wood, and vines into a frame.
What is a Wattle and Daub?
Large, round huts built over a deep pole.
What are lodges?
This marine animal was the main food source of the Northwest region, the most difficult to catch, but worth the effort.
What is a whale?
The Choctaws were known as this for intercepting messages from their enemies in World War I.
What are code talkers?
A long spear-like projectile used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other hunting to shoot, kill, and capture large fish or marine mammals.
What is a harpoon?
Pulled by a dog sled, this was a frame made of poles and skins where the animal that was hunted was placed on top of.
What is a travois?