The First People
Life on the Little River
Indian Trading Path/Vocabulary
NC Cherokees
Clues to the Past
100
The way the first people made it to North America
What is a landbridge.
100
A fence made of large pointed stakes in the ground.
What is a stockade
100
A person from whom one is descended, such as a great great grandparent.
What is an ancestor.
100
A male leader ruled over the Cherokee during times of
What is war.
100
An object made and used by humans.
What is an artifact.
200
Iroquoian, Algonquian, and Siouan
What is a language family.
200
The gathering of ripened crops from the land on which they were grown.
What is harvest.
200
A person who measures the shape and size of the land.
What is a surveyor.
200
The Cherokee lived in this NC region.
What is the mountain region.
200
A written record of something.
What is a document.
300
The American buffalo.
What is a bison.
300
People began farming 7,000-8,000 years ago because they learned how to
What is plant seeds
300
The person who explored the Indian trading path.
Who is John Lawson.
300
Taught the cherokee girls how to sew, gather, and cook.
What is Cherokee mothers.
300
A scientist who studies evidence of humans in the past.
What is an archaeologist.
400
A group of Native Americans who depended on fishing for food
What is Pamlicos
400
A time when Native Americans cleaned their villages, settled arguments, put out all old fires and began new ones, and feasted on newly harvested corn in celebration.
What is the Green Corn Celebration
400
A large hairy elephant-like animal from long ago.
What is a mammoth.
400
Taught the Cherokee boys to hunt, fight, and make weapons.
What is Cherokee grandfathers.
400
The person who made it possible for Cherokee to read and write their language.
Who is Sequoyah.
500
The largest Native American group in the Piedmont.
What is Catawba.
500
A special place for town meetings, games, and other gatherings.
What is a ceremonial center.
500
The direction John Lawson traveled along the Indian Trading Path.
What is North East.
500
The Cherokee lived in two different types of houses. One was rectangular, the other round in two different seasons.
What is rectangular in the summer, and round in the winter.
500
One of the important Native American artifacts found in NC.
What is pottery, arrowheads, or axes.
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