Puebloan Governance
Chaco Canyon is located in this region.
Where is the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest United States?
Cahokia was built in this place, a fertile floodplain of the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
What is the American Bottom?
The Inuit canceled the name "Eskimo." It meant this.
What is "raw meat eater?"
In the confederation, this role had the final say but had to listen to everyone’s opinions first.
What is the Clan Mother?
This is Mrs. Mittner's favorite flavor.
What is chocolate?
This is the year did the Ancestral Puebloans begin building great houses and cliff palaces?,
What is 500 ce
The introduction of this crop enabled people of Cahokia to provide more food for the community.
What is maize (or corn)?
The Inuit lived in small groups to make decisions and move quickly in response to this concern.
What is "harsh" or "arctic" environment?
One benefit of various tribes joining as a confederacy instead of staying separate.
What is greater strength, (or cooperation, or peace)
The name of Mrs. Mittner's dog.
What is Bandit?
The method that Pueblo communities use to pass down their history instead of writing
What are Oral narratives (or oral traditions)?
Since more food could be provided by fewer farmers, some people were able to take on these roles.
What are specialized craftsmen and traders?
Leaders had responsibilities for this group of people.
Their own clan.
This role was held by a man, but he had to represent the the what his clan wanted, as told told to him by the Clan Mother
Who was the chief?
These are the four courses Mrs. Mittner is in charge of this year.
What are Fitness, Intro to Graphic Art & Design, Career & Independence, and US History.
Pueblo farmers move their fields from time to time for this reason.
What is to let the land rest and regenerate (or “fallowing”)?
At Cahokia, archaeologists uncovered ocean shells and evidence of burial practices from other cultures, showing contact with distant places.
What is that people traveled and traded over long distances?
In charge of mediating between the human world and the spirit world for the benefit of the community.
Who is the Shaman.
This government was (at least partly) founded on the principles followed by the Haudenosaunee system of governance.
What is the United States of America?
The date of Mrs. Mittner's birthday.
What is December 26th?
This is how Pueblo people describe time differently than Western traditions.
What is cyclical?
At Cahokia, archaeologists discovered large ceremonial mounds, luxury goods, and elaborate burials reserved for a few individuals.
What is evidence for the rise of an elite ruling class?
The clan leader needed to build this, in order to make a decision for the clan.
What is consensus?
The name of the meeting where all the chiefs (representing 50 clans) would come together and reach a consensus about problems facing the confederation.
What is the Grand Council?
A red Jeep Renegade.
What kind of car does Mrs. Mittner drive?