Meet the Indians
The names of the 4 groups of early California Indian tribes.
What is Coastal People, Valley People, Desert People, and Mountain People?
The weapon thrown by an atlatl.
What is a spear?
The Coastal People most commonly used this water transportation device.
What is canoe?
The biggest tree in the world is found in this state.
What is California?
The Mountain People did this to their meat, so they could eat it in the winter.
What is dry their meat?
How many years ago the earliest settlers arrived in California.
What is 12,000 years ago?
The weapon that replaced the atlatl.
What is the bow and arrow?
From the animals they harvested, the Coastal People created these items (name one).
What are food, clothing, fishing line, ropes, and tools?
The name of the world's largest living tree.
What is General Sherman?
The mountain range along the eastern border of California.
What is the Sierra Nevada?
About how many different languages that were spoken by the first Californians.
What is more than 100?
The three materials used to make a duck decoy.
What is cattail leaves, feathers, and yucca strips?
Three of the animals the Coastal People harvested.
What are kelp, sea slugs, salmon, herring, halibut, dog salmon, whales, and sea otters?
The largest tree in the world is this wide around its base.
What is 103 feet wide?
The item the Mountain People wore on their feet to get around in the snow.
What are snowshoes?
The three things Native Americans used to decorate their bodies.
What is fur, beads, and feathers?
The reason why California Indians switched from the atlatl to bow and arrow.
What is so they could shoot from a closer distance and not frighten their prey?
The Coastal People had to protect their homes from what?
What are coastal storms?
The biggest tree in the world is this tall.
What is 275 feet tall?
While the men hunted, the women had this job.
What is gather nuts and berries?
The material used to make sandals, baskets, and mats.
What is sagebrush bark?
The two countries that continue to use atlatls to hunt and fish.
What is Mexico and Australia?
The four examples given as tribes in the coastal region.
What are the Hupa, Yurok, Karok, and Chumash?
The biggest tree in the world is estimated to be between this many years old.
What is between 2,300 and 2,700 years old?
The two tribe examples from this region.
What are the Maidu and Nisenan?