Food
These three foods were popular with the people of the Southwest because of their ability to be grown in harsh climates.
What are the Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash)?
Tall wooden polls that have faces and animals carved into them.
What are totem polls?
The permanent housing of the People of the Southwest.
What are Pueblos?
This region has a dry, or arid climate with extreme temperatures and many plateaus and canyons.
This region had medicine men called Shamans and believed in Skinwalkers.
This region ate lots of fish, elk, and berries.
What is the Northwest region?
Wooden dolls that were believed to have a connection to the spirit realm.
What are kachina dolls?
The People of the Southwest used reddish brown clay to build their houses.
What is adobe?
This region has four seasons and a lot of natural resources.
What are the Northeastern Woodlands?
This region had many tribes that followed a matriarch (man moves in with the wife's family), and were lead by woman.
What are the Northeastern or Southeastern woodlands?
This region hunted animals like deer, turkey, and other small game.
What are the Northeastern woodlands?
The People of the Northwest used this as a way to keep their clothes waterproof because of their wet climate.
What is cedar bark?
The houses of the Northwest were long, and made out of long wooden boards.
What are Plank Houses?
This region has a mild climate and is home to the everglades and the mouth of the Mississippi River.
What is the Southeastern Woodlands?
A solution to the constant fighting between the people of the Northeastern Woodlands.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This region used crop rotation because of their long growing season.
What are the Southeastern woodlands?
Northeastern Woodland belts that were covered in pictures that told stories.
What are Wampum belts?
The people of the Northeastern woodlands had two kinds of housing. One permanent and one for moving around.
What are Longhouses and Wigwams?
People changing the environment to fit their needs.
The People of the Northwest had a special tradition that celebrated how much people gave away, and not how much people have.
What is a Potlatch Ceremony?
People of the desert Southwest modified their environment to get water to their crops.
What is irrigation?
Shoes made out of deerskin used in the Northeastern Woodlands.
What are moccasins?
These houses in the Southeastern Woodlands were made out of twigs, branches, dry grass and stuck together with clay or mud.
What is Wattle and Daub?
People changing the way they live to fit their environment.