American Indian Cultural Regions
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Look at the MAP. What is in green labeled A?
What is the Eastern Woodland Region?
This is the land bridge that scientist believe that the First Americans migrated across into North America.
What is the Bering land bridge?
This terms is when a Native American group would exchange natural resources with another Native American group.
What is trade?
These crops provided the people with a variety of food and a balanced diet. Some people believed that corn, beans, and squash, were divine gifts received by their ancestors. Each type of plant helped the others in some way.
What are "The Three Sisters"?
This is a system for making rules and decisions.
What is a government?
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Look at the MAP. What is in green labeled C?
What is the Great Plains?
This Native American group had a council led by a chief and were not nomads. They had crops and stayed in one place.
What are settled famers?
This was a type of technology that brought water from nearby rivers to their crops.
What is irrigation?
These are a group of people who generally lived in the Great Plains, moving from one plact to another, following migrating animals such as the buffalo.
What are nomads?
This is a decision making body that could be made up of a group's single leader or a small group of leaders. A single leader, or chief, often led this.
What is a council?
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Look at the MAP. What is in green labeled D?
What is the Pacific Northwest Region?
What is something that the Native Americans would trade their natural resources with the European colonists?
What are Metal tools? or What are manufactured goods?
This is a natural resource that can be traded.
Example: Animal skins are a natural resource, which American Indians traded with colonists for manufactured goods.
What is a commodity?
This region is where people often settled in one place and hunted fish and marine mammals such as seals.
What is the Pacific Northwest Region?
This is a group whose members share the same goals. The Powhatan's had formed this to share recources and protect each other.
What is a confederacy?
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Look at the MAP. What is in green labeled E?
What is the Great Basin Region?
What type of "home" was easily taken apart so that Native Americans could travel with it to different areas in the Great Plains while often hunting bison.
What are tepees?
What is a custom or belief that is passed on from on generation to the next?
What is tradition?
This region is where People settled in one place and used irrigation to grow crops such as corn and beans.
What is the Southwest Region?
This is a system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods.
What is an economy?
What is one of the important activity for American Indians on the coastline of the Eastern Woodlands?
What is fishing?
This is a ceremony that was held by many groups because a good harvest was very important to their culture.
What is A Green Corn Ceremony?
These are traditional customs, beliefs, and stories passed on from generation to generation?
What are folktales? or What is folklore?
This gift was presented to young Puebloan girls and represented spirits shown in the masks, feathers, and clothing.
What are Kachina dolls?
This is a system of trade routes that connected different areas.
What are trading networks?