Tribes
Lovelock Cave People
Vocabulary
Native Americans Today
Customs
100
This group was one of Nevada's smallest historic groups.
Who are the Washoe?
100
This group were known as hunter-gatherers.
Who are the Lovelock Cave People?
100
This word means groups.
What is tribes?
100
Today's native Americans own and operate this?
What are hotels and casinos?
100
This is a game played by young native girls.
What is shinny?
200
This group settled in western Nevada and parts of California, and Oregon.
Who are the Northern Paiutes?
200
This is the tool that they used to make it easier to throw a spear harder and faster.
What is an atlatl?
200
This word means main food.
What is staple?
200
Keeping this alive is important part of Native American life in our state?
What are traditions?
200
This is name of the person that Native Americans believe in.
Who is the Great Spirit or Creator?
300
These people were Nevada's best gardeners.
Who are the Mohave?
300
This is the product they used to make duck decoys from.
What is tule reeds?
300
This word means a body that had been wrapped for burial.
What is mummy?
300
Each year Native Americans hold these things to keep tradition alive?
What are powwows and festivals?
300
This is what their shelters were built from in warmer months.
What is mesquite branches?
400
This group built a large community known today as Pueblo Grande de Nevada, or Lost City.
Who are the Anasazi?
400
This is an important achaeological site in our state. Artifacts made of bone, stone, and wood have been found here.
Where is the Lovelock Cave?
400
This word means carvings on rocks and cave walls.
What is petroglyphs?
400
Today Native American's operate these three businesses.
What are fisheries, campgrouds, or marinas?
400
This is what Native people believed when they died.
What is go to live in a better place?
500
This group is the first people to reach what is now Nevada. They came to this region more than 10,000 years ago.
Who are the Desert Archaic?
500
Pieces of this were uncovered in the Lovelock Cave.
What is tule baskets?
500
This word is used to describe a color that is bluish-green.
What is turquoise?
500
These have their own governments that provide services, enforce laws, and collect taxes.
What is a Reservation?
500
This is what they did when they covered pole frames with when it turned cold.
What is grass, reeds, or bark?
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