Coming To America
Who were the first people to inhabit North America?
Who are the Native Americans?
Name the region farthest North.
What is the Far North Region/Arctic Region?
What is the land like in the Far North Region?
Cold climate, long winters, very few plants can grow, mountains, plains, and oceans.
Name a famous Blackfeet Native American.
Red Plume, Red Crow, Chief Heavy Runner, Mountain Chief, Chief Lame Bull.
In what part of Montana are the Blackfeet located?
What is Northwest Montana?
What is food?
Name region B.
What is the Southeast Woodlands?
What shelters did the people of the Northeastern Woodlands have/build?
Wigwams - dome-shaped homes
Longhouses - long homes
Tell me a fact about Chief Lame Bull.
Negotiated Treaty with Blackfeet Nation, created peace with whites of MT and negotiated land boundary lines
How did the Blackfeet get their name?
What is the black soles on moccasins?
Explain the path the Native Americans took in order to get to North America (starting point, path, ending point).
Name region D.
What is the Southwest Region?
What kinds of foods did the people of the Northwest region hunt/gather?
Whales, clams, salmon, sea lion, seaweed, berries, fruit, wild plants.
Which famous Blackfeet Native American was nicknamed "Big Brave"?
Who is Mountain Chief?
How many tribes make of the Blackfeet nation?
What is four (4) tribes?
Define a natural resource.
What is something that is found in nature and is NOT man-made?
Name region E.
What is the Northwest Region?
What were the clothing items the people of the Plains region had/made?
Which famous Blackfeet Native American was in the middle of a treaty negotiation with the Americans when he was killed?
Chief Heavy Runner
What is meat and berries?
Fill in the blanks:
After arriving in N.A. Native Americans became _____. This meant that they ______ for food and ______ fruit, berries, and nuts.
What is hunter-gatherers, hunted, and gathered.
Name regions C and F.
What is the the Plains and the Northeast Woodlands?
What were some tools/important objects the people of the Southeastern Woodlands made/created?
Which famous Blackfeet Native American claimed himself to be a chief (when he was not)?
Who is Red Plume?
How many millions of acres of land do the Blackfeet have?
What is 1.5 million acres of land.