Language Groups
What language was spoken by the Powhatan?
What is Algonquian?
In the summer, the Natives had to...
What was perhaps the most valuable resource to the Monocans?
What is copper?
What are arrowheads, pottery, beads, bow-and-arrows
What is the name for someone that studies items from the past?
The Algonquian language group was primarily spoken in which region of Virginia?
What is the Coastal Plain/Tidewater?
In which season would the Natives have harvested crops and stored food for winter?
What is fall/autumn?
What did the Powhatan people use tree trunks for?
What is to make canoes?
Where do current state-recognized tribes live?
How would you describe Virginia's climate?
Which tribe was known to speak Siouan?
What is Monocan?
What did the Natives use for clothing?
What are animal hides?
What was the name of Powhatan's headquarters?
What is Werowocomoco?
Why were the Natives forced to migrate?
What is because of the European settlers taking their land and their resources?
What are the Three Sisters?
Siouan was the language spoken in which region of Virginia?
What is the Piedmont?
In which season did the natives hunt small animals and WHY?
What is winter because the larger animals were hibernating or had migrated. They also lived off stored foods from the fall.
Which language group would likely have had the LEAST contact with European settlers? AND WHY?
What is the Iroquoian language group? This is because they lived the farthest inland, away from the European settlements.
Describe the roles Virginia's Natives play today
What are contributing members of society that work jobs, have positions in government, and are just like us!
Virginia's Natives built their homes out of...
What are the natural resources around them?
Which THREE regions was the Iroquoian language spoken in?
What is the Appalachian Plateau and small parts of the Coastal Plain/Tidewater AND Valley and Ridge?
Which THREE things did the Natives do in the spring for food?
What is hunted, fished, and picked berries?
Which tribe came into contact with the English first? AND WHY?
What is the Powhatan because they lived in the Coastal Plain. When the English ships arrived, they docked at the shores of Virginia's beaches
What are reservations?
What did the English rename the Pamunkey River? (we still use this name today)
What is the York River?