VA Indians #1
Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he found "Indians"?
He thought he was in the Indies near China.
What language was spoken in the Coastal Plain/Tidewater region?
Algonquian
What group of people spoke Iroquoian?
The Cherokee
In which season did the American Indians grow crops such as corn, beans, and squash?
Summer
What did the American Indians use for clothing?
Animal skins
Give an example of an artifact.
Arrowheads, pottery, tools
Who spoke Algonquian in the Coastal Plain?
The Powhatan
The kinds of foods American Indians ate, the clothing they wore, and the shelters they had depended on what?
The seasons
What are Virginia's American Indians called?
Eastern Woodland Indians
Artifacts were found here that gave clues about interactions of the Indians, English, Africans in early Virginia.
Jamestown
What is the job of an archaeologist?
They study material evidence left by people of the past.
What language was spoken in the Piedmont region?
Siouan
In which season did the American Indians hunt birds, use deerskin as clothing, and live on stored foods from the previous fall?
Winter
What does describes the climate of Virginia?
Where are current state-recognized American Indian tribes located?
In regions throughout Virginia
What was the large Indian town located on the York River that was used as the Powhatan headquarters?
Werowocomo
Who spoke Siouan in the Piedmont region?
The Monacan
Fall
What were Virginia's Indian shelters made from?
Natural resources from the land
True or False. The American Indians believed in land ownership.
False
What became the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What language was spoken in Southwestern VA and in Southern VA near what is today North Carolina?
In which season did the American Indians hunt, fish, and pick berries?
Spring
What was the large Indian town used by Indian leaders for hundreds of years before English settlers came?
Werowocomoco
True or False. Algonquian was spoken in the Coastal Plain.
True