Which of the following states could have been home to Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands cultural group?
A. Utah
B. South Carolina
C. New Mexico
D. Alaska
B. South Carolina
The Southwest Native American cultural grouping includes which present day states?
Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Utah
The Great Basin Native American cultural group would have existed in these present day states.
Nevada, Idaho, and Utah
Name one state that would have been home to Native Americans of the Great Plains cultural group. (If you need to Google a map of the US to compare, take your time and do so)!
Native Americans that were members of the Pacific Northwest cultural group would have lived in which present day states?
Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and northern California
What continent did the first people to come to America come from, according the the Land Bridge Theory?
Asia
What are these shelters used by Easter Woodland Indians called?
What is the name of this Southwestern Native American home?
Pueblo
What is the name of this Great Basin Native American house?
Hogan House
Native Americans of the Great Plains centered their lives around the Buffalo. Even their shelters were made from buffalo hide. What is the name of the type of shelters used by Great Plains Indians?
Tepees
What material were the plank homes of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans made of?
cedar wood
How did the first people to come to North America get here, according to the Land Bridge Theory?
They walked across the frozen land bridge that formed where the Bering Strait now is.
How did the Eastern Woodland Indians get their food? What did they eat?
Hunter-gather and Farm; nuts, berries, squash, beans, corn, moose, deer, and bear
How did the Southwest Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?
hunter-gatherers and farmers; corn (maize), beans, and squash
How did the Great Basin Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?
Hunter-gather; animals were scarce for hunting (rarely available); seeds, nuts, berries, plants
How did the Great Plains Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?
hunter-gather and farm; squash, pumpkin, buffalo, corn, beans
How did the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest get their food? What did they eat?
hunter-gatherer; nuts, berries, salmon, clams, whale, elk
What were the first people to come to America most likely following?
Something to hunt, such as buffalo
What is the name for the medicine that they believed could cure anything?
Shaman
What kind of dances were done to help bring the rain?
snake dances
What did they believe had spirits?
Everything on earth (plants, animals, rocks, and water)
What was the name of the celebrations or prayers to the "Great Spirit?"
Powwows
What did they use to tell stories about their ancestors and display wealth?
totem pole
How did the first "Americans" get their food?
They were hunter-gatherers.
Name one tribe from this cultural group.
Algonquian, Cherokee, Shawnee, Seminole, Iroquois
Name one tribe that belonged to the Southwest cultural group.
Navajo, Pueblo, Apache
Name one tribe that belonged to the Great Basin cultural group.
Ute, Shoshone, Washo
Name one tribe that belonged to the Great Plains cultural group.
Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Comanche, Crow
Name one tribe that belonged to the Pacific Northwest cultural group?
Tlingit, Nez Perce, Salish
True of False: Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America?
FALSE!