Native Cultures & Society
Relating to a social system where inheritance and family lineage are traced through the mother.
What is matrilineal?
This biological protection was missing in Native Americans, making them vulnerable to European diseases like smallpox.
What is immunity?
An object made by a human being, typically of cultural or historical interest, dug up by scientists.
What is an artifact?
In short supply: not having enough resources to meet all human demands and wants.
What is scarce?
To establish a settlement in a foreign land and bring it under the political control of a parent country.
What is to colonize?
Belonging to or shared by all members of a community for common use.
What is communal?
This major Native nation lived in the mountainous Blue Ridge region of South Carolina and fought frequently with settlers.
Who are the Cherokee?
A traditional Native building technique using woven wooden strips covered with sticky mud or clay.
What is wattle and daub?
To change goods or services directly for other goods or services without using money.
What is to barter
To make someone a slave or subject them to a system of forced labor and bondage.
What is to enslave?
This Native nation in South Carolina lived in the Piedmont, was known for pottery, and was led by a powerful chiefdom.
Who are the Catawba?
The forced removal of a people or nation from their homeland or native territory.
What is displacement?
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts.
What is archaeology?
A system of ideas intended to explain something based on evidence, like how humans first migrated to the Americas.
What is a theory?
The economic theory that colonies exist to make the home country wealthy by exporting more than importing.
What is mercantilism?
A person who has been forced to leave their country to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a refugee?
This coastal tribe fought a major war against SC colonists from 1715 to 1717 before being pushed south to Florida.
Who are the Yamasee?
A main food item that forms the basis of a traditional diet, such as corn (maize) for early Carolinians.
What is a staple (or staple food)?
A person and sometimes unreasoned judgment or prejudice for or against something.
What is a bias?
To subject someone to hostility or ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
What is to persecute?
Possessing supreme or independent political power and authority over a territory.
What is sovereign?
Valued traditions, practices, and culture passed down through generations.
What is heritage?
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native to a region.
What is indigenous?
Needing no outside help in satisfying one's basic needs, especially regarding food and production.
What is self-sufficient?
This dispersion of forced scattering of people from their homeland, such as the transatlantic slave trade.
What is diaspora?