Languages
What language was primarily spoken by the Cherokee in Southwestern and Southern Virginia?
What is Iroquoian?
Virginia Indians used this to make clothing.
What is animal skins (or deer skin)?
What is an example of an artifact?
Could have many answers, including, pottery, jewelry, arrowheads, weapons, tools
For American Indians, the kinds of food they ate, clothing they wore, and shelter they had depended on the...
seasons
Christopher Columbus called the people he found in the lands he explored "Indians" because...
What is he thought he was in the Indies?
What region is Algonquian spoken?
What is the Coastal Plain region.
Virginia Indians used this to build their homes.
Trees, bark, reeds
What is Werowocomoco?
An Indian town where the leaders of the tribes lived.
What is the climate of Virginia?
Mild with 4 distinct seasons
Virginia's Native Peoples are also referred to as
Eastern Woodland Indians
What language was spoken in the Piedmont region?
Siouan
What is beans corn and squash?
This town was located on the York River.
What is Werewocomoco?
In the spring, the natives did this to get food.
Fish, hunt, pick berries
What region did the Monacan live?
What is the piedmont?
This tribe spoke Siouan.
What is Monacan
The natives hunted these animals in the winter.
What is birds?
This town is located on the James River and was the first permanent English Settlement.
What is Jamestown?
In the fall the natives did this for food..
harvest groups, hunt for food, preserve foods.
True or False: today's American Indians mostly live on the Eastern shore to be near the natural resources of the Chesapeake Bay.
False
This language was spoken by the Powhatan.
What is algonqiuan?
The natives build towns along these natural resources.
What is rivers?
True or False: The three sisters is an example of an Artifact.
False
In the summer natives did this for food..
Grew crops such as 3 sisters
Where are current state-recognized American Indian tribes located (in Virginia)?
All throughout Virginia