Cultural Regions
This was the driest region. It stretched from the Colorado and Arizona down to northern Mexico. The area contained mountains, flat topped mesas, canyons and deserts.
What is the Southwest?
American Indians living in the deserts of the _____________ region had to learn to live without a lot of rain.
Arctic
Plains
Northeast
Southwest
Because of the treeless, frozen tundra this region relied heavily on hunting and fishing.
What is the arctic?
These home were found in the southwest region. They were made out of clay, pebbles, and straw and could be from four to five stories high. They looked like apartment buildings
What is a pueblo or adobe?
How were the Northwest Indians different from the Southwest Indians?
a. Northwest Indians lived in permanent shelters, and Southwest Indians moved a lot.
b. Northwest Indians lived in plank houses, Southwest Indians lived in clay houses.
c. Northwest Indians lived in heavily wooded areas, and Southwest Indians lived on flat land.
d. Northwest Indians built shelters out of trees, and Southwest Indians built shelters out of buffalo skin.
b. Northwest Indians lived in plank houses, Southwest Indians lived in clay houses.
This Native American region used irrigation to water their crops. They dug trenches from rivers to their fields to supply their plants with water.
What is the Southwest?
This region's main source of food was buffalo. They also hunted smaller animals such as deer, elk, beaver, and antelope.
What is the plains region?
American Indians have kept their cultures alive through oral history. What is oral history?
a. taking pictures of the past
b. playing games from the past
c. retelling stories from the past
d. making objects about the past
c. retelling stories from the past
This Native American Region invented hammocks. This region also had the first Native American written language created by Sequoyah.
What is the Southeast?
This region was the first to create irrigation to grow crops. They also hunted animals like turkey, rabbit, and antelope.
What is the northeast?
Found on a narrow strip of land along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California. Dense cedar forest grew right to the oceans shore. The climate was mild but the area received heavy rain almost all year.
What is the Northwest Region?
In the Northeast, the people used temporary homes made by bending small trees into a dome shaped frame. This frame was covered with mats made from birch bark trees.
What is a longhouse?
The Plains Indians were nomadic. What does nomadic mean?
a. To use fish as food
b. To use ice to build houses
c. To move a lot to find food
d. To stay in one location to grow crops
c. To move a lot to find food
These TWO regions grew the three sister crops (corn, beans, and squash), hunted animals like deer, fished, and gathered nuts, berries, and roots.
What is the southeast and northeast?
These structures were made from packed snow and ice.
What is an igloo?
American Indians living in the ________ region used the cedar trees to build their plank houses and canoes.
Arctic
Plains
Northeast
Northwest
Northeast
This region didn't have a need to grow their own food because of an abundance of fish, whale, berries, nuts, and animals to hunt.
What is the northwest?