Me First!
What is a nomad?
Travel often to hunt / No steady home
What is climate?
Weather of a place over time
What were the responsibilities of the women in Native American tribes? (Describe 2)
carry water/wood, gather wood, prepare food/cook, make clothes, clean, plant crops, gather food (nuts, seeds, berries), care for children, butchered bison, set up teepees
How important were women in the government of the Iroquois League?
Chose the council members. Could remove or replace council members
Define economy.
System by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods.
First Americans crossed over to North America from Asia, using the ______ ______, which was a dry bridge.
Bering Strait
What is a council?
A decision-making body that could be made up of a group’s single leader or a small group of leaders
What were the responsibilities of the children in Native American tribes? (Describe 2)
Children: Help with chores
Older boys: join father on the hunt
Leave mom when become teens, train to be adults
Describe the Pueblo’s government.
All Pueblo Council of Governors make decisions for the community. Each group sends a governor to represent them on the council.
What role did geography and climate have on the American Indians who settled in North and South America? Explain/Give examples (4).
Determined the resources that people used to:
Build homes
Make tools/weapons
What they eat
Make clothes
The Inuit lived where it was frozen most of the year, so they relied mostly on what for food?
The sea for food (whales, seals)
Define confederacy.
Group whose members share the same goal
What were the responsibilities of the men in Native American tribes? (Describe 2)
hunt, kept village safe, cleared the land for planting, took care of religious/social tasks
Describe the Navajo’s government.
Tribal council selected a chief. Chief did not make decisions for the group, but acted as an adviser. The tribal council made the decisions.
What animal did the Plains Indians rely on?
Buffalo
Why did the Mound Builders build mounds?
For religious ceremonies and graves
Define government.
A system for making rules and decisions.
Why were shamans and two-spirits important to American Indian groups?
Believed such people could heal the sick
Who had the decision-making ability in the Iroquois League?
Council of 50 men
How might the location of an American Indian settlement impact whether it traded with other groups?
They traded items they did not have the resources (skills, or knowledge) to make
Ancestral Puebloans lived in the desert, so they had to rely on what for water?
Irrigation
Define animism.
Animals and the earth had spirits
Give an example of a custom or tradition.
Clothes, shelter/homes, storytelling, food, hairstyles, music, instruments, art, etc.
Identify two different types of governments that American Indians had in the past.
Council government and smaller groups with a male leader of the family
Why did people in North America establish trade routes?
Increase trade and gain goods