Rivers/Definitions
the kind of weather a place has most often, year after year
What is climate?
An object made by people in the past
What is an artifact?
Growing beans, corn, and squash
What is the way N.A. met their needs for food during the summer?
Hunting, fishing, and picking berries
What are ways that Native Americans gathered food during the spring?
hot, rainy summers; mild, rainy winters, sometimes with heavy snows
What is Virginia's climate?
The James, the York, the Rappahannock, and the Potomac
What are four major rivers in Virginia?
a net built across a river, used to trap fish
What is a weir?
Algonquian
What is the language group that was spoken primarily in the Coastal Plain region?
wood and clay
What are examples of natural resources?
harvesting crops and hunting for food to store
What are ways that N.A. met their needs for food during the fall?
Land owned by Indians and set aside for their use?
What are reservations?
Ideas about the past
What are historical perspectives?
Iroquoian
What is the language group spoken primarily in Southwestern Va?
Werowocomoco
What was Powhatan's headquarters?
hunting smaller animals, fishing, and gathering plants
What are ways early people adapted to a warming climate?
Plant life
What is vegetation?
Stories, ideas, and games that are handed down over time
What are traditions?
Siouan
What is the language group that was spoken mainly in the Piedmont region?
Monacans
What current state recognized tribe is located in the Piedmont?
Two different kinds of houses
What is a way that Cherokee adapted to changing seasons?
A source of food, a path for exploration, and a place to build settlements alongside
What are three ways rivers were used by early Native Americans?
A celebration during which tribal culture is shared with songs, dances, stories, and food
What is a powwow?
hunting birds and animals; living on food stored from the previous fall
What are the way N. A. met their needs for food in the winter?
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in the New World
Corncobs and pottery
What are artifacts that tell us that N.A. and settlers traded?