Adapting
American Indians
Digging up the Past
Location Language Tribe
100

Virginia has what type of climate?

Mild

100

What and where did the Virginia Indians use to build their shelters?

Materials around their village

100

Who studies many types of material evidence left from people of the past?

Archaeologists

100

What region primarily spoke the Siouan language?

Piedmont Region

200

It is springtime, what will the Virginia Indians do for food?

Fish, hunt, and pick berries

200

How many state recognized tribes are in present-day Virginia?

8 Tribes

200

I was digging up artifacts at Werowocomoco on the York River. What region of Virginia would I be in?

Coastal Plain (Tidewater)

200

Which tribe spoke the Siouan Language?

Monacan tribe

300

The sun is shining and summer is here! What will the Virginia Indians do for food?

Grow crops such as corn, beans, and squash

300

What is the sentence that helps us remember the languages and tribes?

Indians Shoot Arrows

Cold Mashed Potatoes

300

What is the name of the first English settlement where many artifacts were found that showed early interactions between the English and the American Indians?

Jamestown

300

What language did American Indians speak in the southwestern region of Virginia?

Iroquoian

400

Snow has started to fall. Winter has come. What will the Virginia Indians do for food and clothing?

Hunt, eat stored food from the fall. Wear deerskins.

400

Why did Christopher Columbus call the Native People "Indians"?

He thought he was in the Indies.

400

What are three examples of artifacts that help us learn about how people lived in Virginia in the past?

Pottery, arrowheads, and tools

400

Chief Powhatan spoke which language?

Algonquian

500

Leaves are changing colors, fall has arrived. What will the Virginia Indians do for food?

Harvest their crops and hunt for food to store for the winter.

500

What was the headquarters of Chief Powhatan?

Werowocomoco

500

What is evidence that shows us that the English colonists and the Native People interacted?

Artifacts in the Jamestown Settlement

500

Why are Virginian Indians also called Eastern Woodland Indians?

Forests covered most of where they lived.

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