Environment
Native Americans lived in harmony with this.
What is nature?
This was the most important crop for natives.
What is maize?
What is corn?
This animal was commonly hunted by the Native Mississippians that could used for clothing and meat.
What are deer?
This is family and ancestors through your mother.
What is matrilineal?
This is a popular game played that inspired lacrosse.
What is stickball?
Native Americans needed this to grow crops.
What is fertile land?
Give one example of how their most important crop can be used?
What are grits?
What is bread?
What is hominy?
This other animal was brought over by European settlers and became hunted by the native people.
What are wild hogs?
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What are pigs?
This is a group of families with a common ancestor.
What is a clan?
This game used a rolling disk and spears.
What is chunkey?
Give one natural resource Native Americans used to survive.
What is water?
What is animals?
What is land?
Name one crop besides corn that Native Mississippians grew?
What are beans?
What is squash?
This was commonly used for hunting.
What is a bow and arrow?
Outside the clan is called this.
What is exogamic?
This was the name for a native Missisippi chief.
What is a mingo?
This covered large areas of Mississippi.
What are forests?
This was used to store grain and crops.
What is a granary?
This fishing method involved reaching into underwater logs.
What is grabbling?
What is Muskhogean?
This is an event where natives came together for forgiving and celebrate the upcoming new year.
What is Green Corn Ceremony?
Early European explorers compared the environment to this biblical place.
What is the Garden of Eden?
Name the three ways natives got food?
What is farming, hunting, and fishing?
This is a fishing method using herbs and plants to stun the fish causing them to lose control of their muscles and float to the surface.
What is stupefying?
This is communication using pictures and symbols.
What is pictography?
Also known as a peace pipe, this was normally used at the beginning of an important meeting.
What is a calumet?