Eastern Woodlands
Plains
Southwest
Pacific Northwest
Misc.
100
The type of homes most Eastern Woodlands Native Americans lived in.
What is a longhouse?
100
The location of Plains Native Americans (North, East, South, West, Central) in the USA.
What is Central USA?
100
The name Southwest Native Americans used for spirits. They sometimes made dolls to represent these spirits.
What are kachinas?
100
The type of homes most Northwest Native Americans lived in.
What are plank houses?
100
The movement of people.
What is migration?
200
The most important natural resource for Eastern Woodlands Native Americans.
What is wood.
200
Plains Native Americans' most important natural resource.
What is buffalo/bison?
200
The type of home most Southwest Native Americans lived in.
What are pueblos?
200
Big wooden posts, painted and carved by Northwest Native Americans.
What are totem poles?
200
A group of leaders who meet to make decisions.
What is a council?
300
religious web-shaped objects that were meant to keep Natives safe while they slept
What are dreamcatchers?
300
What were teepees made out of?
What is buffalo skin and wood?
300
The material pueblos were built out of.
What is adobe brick. (clay, sand, water, and straw)
300
Northwest Native Americans were expert fishermen that used harpoons and other tactic to catch and eat these things.
What are whales and salmon?
300
An early family member.
What is an ancestor?
400
The ocean Eastern Woodlands Native Americans lived nearest to.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Plains constantly migrated with the seasons to follow bison. This vocabulary word describes their lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
400
The climate of the Southwest.
What is hot and dry, desert climate?
400
The reason why Northwest Native Americans built plank houses with low roofs. (What natural resource did the use to build and why were the roofs low?)
What is they had cedar trees to build with and built low roofs to keep them warm?
400
The resource it was important for Native Americans to have a surplus of and the most important time of year to have a surplus of this resource.
What is it was important for Native Americans to have a surplus of food before the winter started?
500
What Eastern Woodlands Native Americans used to build longhouses.
What are wooden poles and tree bark?
500
The reason why Plains Native Americans were nomadic and how this affected the type of homes they built and lived in.
What is they hunted and followed bison/buffalo and built teepees out of buffalo skin and wood because they were easy to put up and take back down?
500
What type of spirits/gods Southwest Native Americans believed in and why.
What is they believed in nature gods or spirits because they needed nature to survive?
500
The way Northwest Native Americans' governments were organized and who had power in their society.
What is they did not have an organized government, power depended on who had the most slaves and riches?
500
The reason why people do not think Native Americans should be used as mascots or logos.
What is it is embarrassing, seen as disrespectful, offensive, racist, etc. (multiple answers accepted)
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