Early American Indians and Oklahoma's Natural Resources
A large herd animal used by early Native Americans as food, shelter, clothing, tools, and trade.
What is the Bison/Buffalo?
These dwellings, often used by Pioneers until lumber could be purchased or harvested, were made from the top layer of grass and dirt.
What are sod houses or soddies?
The name of the natural disaster which left the Midwest, including Oklahoma, suffering through storms of dirt blowing through the air.
What is the Dust Bowl?
An area of land designated for the survival of native plants/animals.
What is a wildlife refuge?
Name of the lake we watched a video about that was created by flooding a ghost town.
What is Lake Altus-Lugert?
The part of the bison used by early Native Americans for food.
What is the meat/organs?
This event in Oklahoma allowed people to stake a claim of Oklahoma land by collecting the identifying tag and taking it to a Land Office. This resulted in a massive boom in the population of Oklahoma overnight.
What was the Oklahoma Land Run?
The decade that the dust storms affected Oklahoma.
What was the 1930's?
The way many Oklahoma lakes were made which displaced the people who lived there.
What is flooding towns?
What is Okies?
The part of the bison used by early Native Americans for clothing and shelter?
What is the hide/fur?
Unlike Boomers, people who waited for the sound of the "boom" to signal them to go find their land stake, these people snuck into Oklahoma lands early and hid out so they could guarantee the claim of their wanted land.
What were Sooners?
The farming practice that contributed to the dust storms.
What is the widespread plowing of native grass?
A structure built to keep water from following it's natural path, often used in building lakes.
What are dams?
What is the name of the area of land designated to ensure the survival of native plants and animals that is located closest to us?
What is the Wichita Moutain Wildlife Refuge?
The organ of the bison used as a canteen by the early Native Americans.
What is the bladder?
One of the first things many Pioneers built in order to irrigate their crops and have water for survival.
What is a windmill?
The environmental issue that contributed to the dust storms.
What is drought?
The act of moving water to farmland for the survival of the plants.
What is irrigation?
A name originally made from two Choctaw words meaning Red People.
The way in which early Native Americans, and many Native American tribes today viewed/view the bison/buffalo.
What is sacred or with reverence?
This government-funded act allowed citizens to claim a parcel of land if they promised to live on and improve it.
What was the Homestead Act?
This is where many Oklahoma families migrated to because of the economic impact of the dust storms.
What is California?
A set of waterway system running from Oklahoma to the Mississippi River, designed to stop flooding in Oklahoma.
What is the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System?
Oklahoma business man turned governor that advocated for water control and containment in Oklahoma.
Who was Robert S. Kerr?