Sioux of the Plains
The large animal that provided the Sioux with meat, hides, and many other supplies.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
The traditional Navajo home is built from a frame of sticks and logs and covered with mud.
What is a hogan?
These tall carved wooden objects used animal symbols to help preserve a family’s stories and history.
What are totem poles?
These animal materials provided the warm layers of clothing Inuit people needed in the
Arctic.
What are skins and fur?
These long, narrow homes were shared by many families belonging to the same clan.
What are longhouses?
These portable, cone-shaped homes could be taken down and moved as the Sioux followed buffalo herds.
What are tipis?
The traditional Navajo home is built from a frame of sticks and logs covered with mud.
What is a hogan?
This fish was so important to the Tlingit that families caught and preserved large amounts for winter.
What is salmon?
These shelters were constructed from blocks of hard snow during hunting trips.
What are igloos (snow houses)?
The three important Iroquois crops known together as the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Sioux hunters sometimes disguised themselves as these animals to get close to buffalo herds without frightening them.
What are wolves?
Sheep supplied this fiber that Navajo women wove into blankets, rugs, and clothing.
What is wool?
These tall carved wooden objects used animal symbols to help preserve a family’s stories and history.
What are totem poles?
These narrow boats, made from frames covered with waterproof skins, were used by Inuit hunters on the water.
What are kayaks?
The tree whose sap the Iroquois boiled to make a sweet syrup.
What is the maple tree?
To cook without metal pots, the Sioux placed heated rocks into water held in this surprising part of a buffalo.
What is a buffalo stomach?
These four states meet in the region known as the Four Corners, where many Navajo people live.
What are Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado?
A Tlingit celebration marked by feasting, singing, dancing, and gift-giving.
DAILY DOUBLE: What is a potlatch?
The name sometimes used for Inuit people that many Inuit do not prefer.
What is “Eskimo”?
The group of leaders that discussed tribal needs and made important decisions for the Iroquois Confederacy.
What is the Great Council?
This wooden frame, pulled by an animal, helped the Sioux transport belongings and tipis between camps.
What is a travois?
The name the Navajo use for themselves means “The People.”
What is Diné?
To make baskets, capes, and other woven items, Tlingit people softened strips of this
tree’s inner bark in hot water.
What is cedar (cedar bark)?
This special eyewear, made from driftwood or bone, protected Inuit eyes from sunlight
reflecting off snow.
What are snow goggles?
These five nations originally formed the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Cayuga?