Geography & Regions
"Native Americans" refers to groups of native people living on which continent?
North America
What word describes the leader of a Native American tribe?
chief
During which centuries did Native American people first BEGIN having contact with white Europeans?
(a) 1300's and 1400's
(b) 1500's and 1600's
(c) 1700's and 1800's
(d) 1900's and 2000's
(b) 1500's and 1600's
What materials are used to build igloos in the Arctic Region?
Snow
(Or packed snow and/or ice)
In what Native American cultural region are you most likely to find totem poles?
Northwestern Region
(or Pacific Northwest)
What three large countries currently cover most of the North American continent?
Mexico, U.S.A., and Canada
A Native American tribe could be large or small, but it always was made up of families. Sometimes, groups formed within a tribe, based on families that shared the same ancestors. What were these groups called?
clans
Many Native Americans were killed in physical conflicts with white explorers, settlers, and military forces. But most native people died from what cause after the Europeans arrived?
disease
What type of dwelling was used by Native American tribes that lived on the Great Plains, following and hunting herds of bison?
teepee
Two types of birds are carved most often on totem poles, and one is the eagle. What is the other bird?
raven
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The Pueblo people lived mainly in which Native American cultural region?
Southwestern Region
(or the Desert Southwest)
Which Native American leader is famous for leading the Nez Perce people in battles against the U.S. military, and then later speaking out against unfair treatment of native tribes by the U.S. government?
(a) Chief Sitting Bull
(b) Chief Joseph
(c) Chief George
(d) Sequoyah
(e) Sacagawea
(b) Chief Joseph
The "chickee" has sturdy wood poles supporting a grass roof, and it usually doesn't have any sides. Seminole people used this type of dwelling in an area of the southeast that is now what U.S. state?
Florida
Northwestern people built plank houses, totem poles, and many other items using wood. What kind of tree usually was used for that wood?
cedar
(or Western Red Cedar)
Which of the Native American cultural regions includes where we live now in Oregon?
Northwestern Region
(or Pacific Northwest)
Which ONE of these Native American tribes did NOT live in the eastern part of North America?
(a) Cherokee
(b) Iroquois
(c) Inuit
(d) Seminole
(c) Inuit
This word describes an area of land that the U.S. government set aside to relocate Native American people that it forced to move off their original home lands.
reservation
Long houses were just larger versions of a small dome-shaped home constructed by Iroquois people and other tribes in the Northeastern Region. What is the smaller home called?
wigwam
Which ONE of these is NOT a type of Native American totem pole?
(a) clan pole
(b) memorial pole
(c) story pole
(d) hunting pole
(e) shame pole
(d) hunting pole
One of the largest Native American cultural regions is a wide area extending down through the middle of today's Canada and U.S.A. What is that region called?
Great Plains
Which Native American tribe (from the Northwestern Region) has a name that means "pierced nose" in French?
Nez Perce
The "Trail of Tears" is an event that resulted from the U.S. government passing which law?
(a) Indian Removal Act of 1830
(b) Homestead Act of 1862
(c) Citizenship Act of 1924
(d) Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
(a) Indian Removal Act
What material was used most for constructing pueblo homes in the Southwestern Region?
adobe
(or mud bricks)
When a totem pole is completed and put lifted into place, the people celebrate with a big ceremony and feast. What is that ceremony called.
potlatch