Geography & Climate
This region is mainly grasslands.
What are the Plains?
People of the plateau needed to perform a ritual for this to return every year.
What is the salmon?
The Plains Native Americans used this animal as a source of food, & materials for clothing, tools, & housing.
What is the Bison or American Buffalo?
This European disease killed many Native Americans by accident and on purpose.
What is small pox?
George Armstrong Custer and all his soldiers were killed during this battle.
What is the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
The Rocky & Sierra Nevada Mountains form the sides of this region giving it its name.
What is the Great Basin?
People of the Pacific Northwest passed on their legends by erecting totem poles at these ceremonial gatherings.
What are potlatches?
The staple food of the People of the Great Basin.
Many Cherokee died during this forced march westward.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Chief Joseph's famous statement.
What is, "I will fight no more forever."?
The climate of the Great Basin.
What is a desert?
This animal is a famous trickster in Native American legends.
What is a coyote?
What the Nez Perce gathered to do in the Spring.
What is hunt salmon?
This animal changed the lives of the Plains Native Americans forever.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Of the regions we studied this region has the most mild climate.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
These people valued wealth and being able to give away possessions.
Who are the people of the Pacific Northwest?
These people build pit houses to stay warm in the winter.
Who are the Native Americans of the Plateau?
The Plains Native Americans once got their food by __________ and _________ fruits & nuts, but once the horse was introduced they became ________ __________.
What is: farming; gathering; bison; hunters
Wovoka's vision promised that doing this would bring dead and living Native Americans together in their homeland and bring back the bison and send the settlers back to the East.
What is the Ghost Dance?
The rainfall in the Pacific Northwest causes this to happen.
What is forests to grow full of plants and animals.
Sioux warrior's reputations were based on this.
What is how many times they could count coup?
These people did not need to farm, but were able to gather the abundant plants and animals of their environment.
Who are the people of the Pacific Northwest?
The reason the US government had trouble making treaties with Native Americans.
What is there was no central Native American government?
American army officers attacked and killed a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?