Homes
What are the two types of homes that the Plains' Native Americans lived in?
Tipis and Lodges
What food did the Plains' Native Americans rely on for survival?
Bison
What was another name for a war bonnet?
A headdress.
What was the grandfather's role in the Eastern Woodland tribe?
Storyteller
How many people could live in an Eastern Woodland lodge?
50 or more
What animals did the Eastern Woodland Native Americans hunt?
Moose, deer, beaver, and raccoon.
What is the name of the tribe that often fought?
Iroquois
What was the grandmother's role in the Eastern Woodland tribes?
Took a leadership role in raising the children.
What are the Plains' Native Americans tipis covered in?
Animal Skin or Birch Bark
What three things did the Eastern Woodland Native Americans do for food?
Hunting, fishing, and gathering.
Why did the tribes in the Eastern Woodlands fight?
Land, expanding hunting grounds, and retaliation.
How did the chief earn their position in Eastern Woodland tribes?
It was inherited from their mother.
What were the Plains' Native American lodges covered with?
Mud and other natural resources.
Why were horses important to the Plains' Native Americans?
How did the Eastern Woodland tribes protect themselves from fighting?
They build palisades and built their homes on a hill.
What was the difference of the shape of tipis and lodges?
Tipis were cone shaped and lodges were dome shaped.
Why did the Plains' Indians need movable tipis?
They followed animal herds and needed to go where the animals were.
What is a buffalo run?
Native Americans dresses as wolves or coyotes and would scare them so they would run over a cliff. The meat would be processed to eat.
Animal bones.
What are the two major language groups in the Eastern Woodland tribes?
Iroquois and Algonquian