Tribes
Tribe given their name by French settlers. Their name means "pierced nose".
Who are the Nez Perces?
Culture area of the Pueblo and Navajo Indians.
What is the Southwest?
A large wooden statue with carvings of creatures stacked on one another.
What is a totem pole?
Rectangular shelter built by the Iroquois.
What is a longhouse?
The Iroquois sometimes used this as money.
What is wampum?
Tribe that had a Great Council that made important decisions for all the people.
Who are the Iroquois?
Culture area of the Inuits.
What is the Arctic?
Special room in a hogan set aside for religious purposes.
What is a kiva?
Navajo shelter made of logs and poles covered with mud.
What is a hogan
Early Americans fulfilled this by filling and ruling over North America.
What is the Creation Mandate.
Tribe that used the game of stickball to settle arguments and for religious purposes.
Who are the Cherokees?
Culture area of the Cherokees.
What is the Southeast Woodlands?
Ancestral spirit that the pueblo believed could control objects in nature.
What is a kachina?
Suggests that the earliest Americans were hunters.
What are Clovis Points?
Native American religious leader.
What is a shaman?
Tribe whose main source of food was the American bison or buffalo
Who are the Sioux?
Culture area of the Chumash.
What is California?
An American Indian village in the Southwest made of stone and adobe buildings built very close together.
What is a pueblo?
A baby carrier used by Native Americans while they worked.
What is a cradleboard?
The way the first Americans may have come to North America.
What is crossing the Bering Strait?
Tribe who fished for salmon, hunted seal, sea otters and whales.
Who are the Makahs?
Culture Area of the Iroquois.
What is the Northeast Woodlands.
A dome shaped house made from blocks of snow and ice or mud that nomadic Inuits lived in.
What is an igloo?
Cherokee style of hut construction using sticks or river cane and mud.
What is wattle and daub?
The customs, beliefs, and creative arts of a group of people.
What is culture?