Terms
The Native Americans' other name given by Columbus
What are Indians?
Another name for the ancestors of the Pueblo people
Who are the Anasazi?
Culture area that was home to the Navajos and Pueblos.
What was the Southwest?
A man-made object left behind by people of the past.
What is an artifact?
Instrument on every map that tells directions on a map.
What is a Compass Rose?
What the ancestors of Native Americans tried to build.
What was the Tower of Babel?
They used harpoons to kill whales, painted colorful designs on the outside of their canoes, held feasts called potlatches, and build houses of cedar planks
Who were the Makahs?
Culture area known for the location of the Sioux
What is the Plains?
The customs, beliefs, and creative arts of a group of people.
What is culture?
North, South, East, and West.
What are the four Cardinal directions on a compass rose?
The path scientists and historians believe was the first Americans way into North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
The name of their tribe means "people," they built houses of snow, were hunters and trained huskies to pull sleds over ice.
Who were the Inuits?
Culture are known for the location of the Nez Perces.
What is the Plateau region?
The command given by God for man to fill the earth and rule over it.
What is the Creation Mandate?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest
Sharp stone objects with a sharp point used to make knives and spears.
What is a Clovis point?
The group whose name is the same as the type of homes they live in.
Who are the Pueblos?
Culture area known to be the location of the Iroquois
What are the Northeast Woodlands?
This means to move from one region to settle in another.
What is migrate?
Where you will find the explanation of what map symbols are about.
What is a map key?
God's command that Native Americans fulfilled by ruling over the North American continent
What is Creation Mandate?
They built their shelters out of logs and poles covered with mud.
Who were the Navajo?
Culture area known to be the location of the Cherokees
What are the Southeast Woodlands?
A large wooden structure that stood in front of many Makah homes that had carved faces to symbolize family ancestors.
What is a totem pole?
What every map has that tells what it's about.
What is a title?