Language Groups
This language was spoken in southern Virginia, near North Carolina, and in the Appalachian Plateau region of Virginia.
What is Iroquoian?
This was the major source of food for Virginia's American Indians during Winter.
What are birds and other animals?
This is what historians use to understand and learn about people who lived long ago in a particular area. Arrowheads and pottery are examples.
What are artifacts?
The people who were the first Americans.
The Powhatans were members of the group of American Indians that spoke this language.
What is Algonquian?
The main resource used for American Indian clothing.
What is animal skins?
The reason the First Americans were called "Indians" by Christopher Columbus.
What is Columbus did not realize what continent he had reached? He thought he had reached the western Indies, or Asia.
Two regions where Native Americans still live in Virginia.
What are the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions of Virginia?
The Algonquian language group in Virginia lived primarily in this region of Virginia.
What is the Coastal Plain (Tidewater)?
This determined what American Indians used for food, clothing, and shelter.
What are the seasons (or climate)?
The name of the American Indian group who lived in Virginia, and were called this name because they lived in the dense forests of Virginia.
Who were the Eastern Woodlands Indians?
A festival to teach others about, and celebrate American Indian culture.
What is a powwow?
The Monacan Tribe was part of this American Indian language group.
What is the Algonquian language group?
The climate of Virginia, which has allowed for the growing of a variety of vegetation.
What is relatively mild?
This is the site of a large Indian town used by Indian leaders for hundreds of years before the English arrived.
What was Weromocomoco?
A current state-recognized tribe in the Piedmont region of Virginia.
What is the Monacan Tribe?
This tribe lived in the Piedmont region of Virginia and were members of the Siouan language group.
Who are the Siouan?
The season when American Indians living in Virginia harvested crops for food.
What is fall (autumn)?
The name of the leader of Weromocomoco.
Who was Chief Powhatan?
Ways American Indians in Virginia maintain their culture.
What are: drumming, singing, dance, art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, pottery and storytelling?