Eastern Woodlands
More Eastern Woodlands
The Great Plains
The Southwest Desert and Northwest Coast
MORE INFORMATION
100
a group of families bound together under a single leadership
What is a TRIBE?
100
An area in which people with similar cultures live.
What is a cultural region?
100
Hundreds of years ago this place was covered with a sea of grass, waving in ever-blowing wind.
What is the Great Plains cultural region?
100
This place has had several tribes settled in this region including the Hopi and the Zuni.
What is the Southwest Desert cultural region?
100
This place holds a powwow every Fourth of July in Northern Cheyenne.
What is Lame Deer, Montana?
200
An organization that people form which unites them for a particular purpose.
What is a LEAGUE?
200
An Iroquois building used for shelter.
What is a longhouse?
200
Large, round huts built over a deep hole.
What is a lodge.
200
This village is built on a mesa.
What is Oraibi?
200
A gathering of American Indians.
What is a powwow?
300
Five groups of the North Eastern region that came together to have peace.
What is the Iroquois League?
300
Wampum are________________.
What are seashells that were hung on strings or woven onto belts?
300
This type of frame was covered in buffalo hides.
What is tepee?
300
A Chinook word meaning "to give away."
What is a potlatch?
300
A person from the Kwakiutl culture who people cam to when they were not feeling well.
What is a shaman?
400
This linked lands of the League.
What is the Iroquois Trail?
400
This is a gift to honor marriage.
What is a wampum belt?
400
lashing a load onto two poles pulled by dogs
What is a travois?
400
This place has plentiful natural resources including many tall, sturdy cedar trees.
What is the Northwest Coast cultural region?
400
This tribe was hunters and were part of the Pueblo Indians.
Who is the Apache?
500
The Iroquois lived in this place.
What is the Eastern Woodlands cultural region?
500
land set aside by the Unites States government for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
500
This tribe trained wild horses or raided other tribes for them.
What is the Cheyenne?
500
A carved post with animals or other images representing a person's ancestors, another way to show wealth.
What is a totem pole?
500
This became important to the Cheyenne and other Plains people. This is how wealth was measured.
What are horses?
M
e
n
u