Vocab
The natural surroundings of a place including land, water, air, plants and animals.
Who are the Hopi's
The first Americans came from
Where is Asia?
This climate only gets enough rain to support different types of grasses
Where is grasslands?
What shape did the Sioux draw their pictographs?
What is a spiral?
Define migration
What is to move from one region of the world to another region?
Where were origin stories told?
Where is their Kiva's?
Which continent did these first Americans migrate to?
Where is North America and South America?
This region is near the North Pole, here huge sheets of ice cover the land most of the year
Where is Arctic Ice Fields?
What natural resource did the Sioux use to record their history?
What is Buffalo hide
What is a circular area sometimes underground where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies
What is a Kiva?
According to this Native America origin story, what did humans live in underground?
What is a cave?
Fill in the blank "The three large animals that were hunted by the first Americans were reindeer, bison, and ______________"
What are mammoths?
How do Native Americans get water for drinking and raising crops?
What is digging wells and ditches?
Name one way the Inuits adapted to their environment
What is...
1. Using seal skins to tire whales
2. Making tents from animal hides
3. Making igloos in the winter
4. Bones for structure support, tools and dogsleds
5. Animal skins for clothing, blankets, tents
This group believed that humans first came from the center of the Earth. This was their understanding of our _______ ________.
What is an origin story?
What type of bird flew out of the hole at the top of Earth?
What is a mockingbird?
How long ago do the scientists believe the first people arrived in America?
When was 12,500 years ago?
What types of trees often grow below the highest points in the mountain climates? (hint there are 3)
What are pine, fir and spruce trees?
What is another name the Inuits were known by?
What is an Eskimo?
These appear in not only Sioux winter counts, but we have also read about these in Meso-America. You may also recognize these from Egypt.
What is a pictograph?
What is the name of the artists who recreated Kiva's in the Arizona Museum?
Michael Kabotie and Delbridge Honanie
What PRESENT day land would the land bridge connect to today?
According to the text, which two places was life the hardest?
Desert of the Southwest and the icy Arctic region.
Where within the shape of a winter count can you find the OLDEST pictograph?
Where is on the outer edges?