a stick Native American boys on the Great Plains used to show their courage
What is a coup stick?
100
groups of families that share the same ancestor
What is clans?
200
a group of people with shared systems of trade, art, religion, and science.
What is a civilization?
200
a carved log painted with symbols of animals or people
What is a totem pole?
200
made of log or stick frames covered with mud or sod.
What is a hogan?
200
bison skins could be used to make a cone-shaped home
What is a teepee?
200
a home made of bent poles covered with sheets of bark
What is a longhouse?
300
a huge sheet of ice on Earth's surface
What is a glacier?
300
a sled that is dragged by people or animals to carry meat and skins a long distance
What is a travois?
300
group that divided their towns into war towns and peace towns
What is the Creek Confederacy?
400
a person who studies tools, bones, and remains of ancient people
What is an archaeologist?
400
a home made of grasses, sticks, and soil
What is a lodge?
400
five groups formed this to maintain peace
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
500
used to get water from rivers to fields
What is irrigation?
500
The Native Americans of the West were highly dependent on the sea for food and trade. They used canoes to trade as well as hunt. In the book, it said that canoes could be up to this length long... ____ feet
What is 60 feet?
500
Living in the desert, the People of the Southwest Plains used this special kind of farming to grow crops
What is dry-farming?
500
polished beads made from shells woven together
What is wampum?
500
Woodland groups used this to clear plots for farming