VOCABULARY
tales told by American Indians which explains where their ancestors came from
What is origin story?
The year Columbus reached America
What is 1492?
What is Midwest?
What are tools?
Who are the first Americans (Maya, Inca, Aztec, Anasazi, Olmec, Mound Builders)?
families who share the same ancestor
What is clan?
The name of the ocean that Columbus sailed across to get to the New World
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Native Americans in this region used river water to grow foods like corn and beans
What is Southwest?
Native Americans lived in our country long before it was called this
What is the United States?
Originally from this area before migrating
What is Siberia (Asia)?
moving from one region to another
What is migrate?
Columbus incorrectly named the people he found Indians due to thinking that he was in this place
What is India?
Native Americans in this region went fishing for their food
What is Northwest?
Some Native Americans taught newcomers to America how to use special plants to make this
What is medicine?
Told stories for these reasons
What is to entertain and to teach?
a change in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment
What is adaptation?
Queen Isabella of Spain wanted Columbus to travel and find this
What is gold?
Native Americans in this region were both hunters and farmers
What is East?
The reason why people from Europe wanted to go to India and China
What are jewels, silks, and spices?
Millions of buffalo lived in this region
What is the Great Plains or Midwest?
something from nature that is useful to people
What is natural resource?
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
Native Americans in this region grew food using irrigation
The problem with the route that people from Europe had been using to get to India and China before Columbus tried sailing
What is rough land, dangerous and a long travel?
Native Americans of the Northwest used trees to build these things
What are canoes and houses?