Tribes/Groups
Prehistoric Native Americans
The Miami
Other Historic Native American Groups
Wildcard
100
A prehistoric Native American group in Indiana.
What are the Moundbuilders?
100
The animals that ancient people followed from Asia to the Americas.
What are mammoths or mastodons?
100
The kind of houses the Miami built.
What are wigwams or longhouses?
100
Where the Delware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi lived before coming to Indiana.
What is the east coast?
100
What group came to Indiana around the year 1600?
What is the Miami tribe?
200
The first historic Native American tribe in Indiana.
What is the Miami tribe?
200
The name of the largest Mound Builder Settlement
What is Cahokia?
200
Squash, beans, melons, corn, and pumpkins are examples of these.
What are crops that the Miami grew?
200
Where Native American groups in Indiana settled in order to have a source of fresh water and food.
What is near rivers?
200
Because the large mammals who ahd been their food source began to go extinct, prehistoric Native Americans began to do this.
What is farm?
300
This was the first tribe who was forced out of their homes on the east coast to arrive in Indiana.
What is the Delaware (Lenape)?
300
The name of the culture that the mound builders were a part of.
What is Mississippian?
300
Our calendar is based on the earth/sun relationship. The miami calendar is based on this.
What is the lunar (moon) cycle?
300
Lenni Lenape is another name for this group.
What is the Delaware tribe?
300
Iilaataweenki is the name for this.
What is the Miami language?
400
This tribe migrated to southwestern Indiana about 200 years ago.
What is the Shawnee Tribe?
400
How many years ago people first arrived in Indiana.
What is 12,000 years?
400
Miami women names their babie after this.
What is the first thing the mother saw after giving birth?
400
This caused the Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi to move to Indiana.
What is being forced off of their land by white settlers?
400
The river that the Miami settled near the headwaters of.
What is the Maumee.
500
This tribe migrated to northern Indian around 1800.
What is the Potawatomi tribe?
500
The name of the piece of land that ancient people crossed to get from Asia to the Americas.
What is the land bridge?
500
The name of an important Miami village.
What is Kekionga?
500
The Shawnee beleived that this great spirit created the world.
Who is Our Grandmother?
500
Bear, eagle, wolf, and deer are examples of these.
What are Shawnee spirit guides?
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