Vocabulary
A large sheet of ice
What is a glacier?
People have lived in California since this time.
What is 9000 B.C.?
Men usually accomplished this task to help their community.
What is hunt?
Shasta men hunted for this type of fish.
What is salmon?
True or false: California Indians changed their land.
What is true?
To change or adjust
What is adapt?
Early California Indians came to North America from this continent.
What is Asia?
Women often did this to support their families and communities.
What is gather?
This tribe trained their dogs to hunt elk and deer.
Who are the Hupa?
California Indians set fire to land for this purpose.
What is to clear the land of dead plants and grasses?
A person who collects plants and hunts for wild animals for food.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
Historians believed that early California Indians walked to California over this.
What is an ice bridge?
These were ground into flour to make bread.
What are acorns?
Although most tribes did not farm, this tribe was known for farming beans, corn and melons.
Who are the Mojave?
What is reduced the number of shrubs and plants growing under trees?
Different or varied
What is diverse?
This was another method historians believed California Indians used to arrive in California.
They sailed by ship.
Because this was diverse, Californian Indians had different ways of life.
What is their their environment?
What is 90?
True or False: Controlled fires were used by California Indians to protect their land against more dangerous wildfires.
What is true?
To think about an idea and make guesses about it.
What is to speculate?
Early Californians were able to cross from Asia to North America because this was lower.
What is the sea level?
These people did roles of both men and/or women in an effort to help their community.
What are two-spirit people?
This is one cause for the different cultures and customs of different California Indian groups.
What is geography or distance?
To prepare and use land for growing plants.
What is cultivate?