Vocabulary
This word means a group of related people or families.
What is clan?
This early culture was the first to settle in Indiana
What is the Adena?
The older women chose the chief in this Native American group.
What is the Lenape?
This group of explores/settlers were the first to arrive in what is now the United States of America.
What is the Spanish?
This was a round house built from young, flexible trees.
What is a wigwam?
This word means an object made by humans.
What is artifact?
The first people built these to honor their dead and serve as ceremonial sites.
What are mounds?
This Native American group is famous for using horses when hunting.
What is the Kickapoo?
This group of people were the first to begin trading furs with the Native Americans in Indiana.
What is the French?
The very first people in the United States, and what is now Indiana, came here from this place.
What is Asia?
This word means farming.
What is agriculture?
These trade resources were used by the Hopewell and other early peoples to make decorative items.
What are shells and copper?
Many tribes moved to or settled in Indiana because of these physical features.
What are many rivers, dense forests, and rich farmland?
French explorer, Robert de La Salle, was able to explore much of what is now called the United States because of these.
What are lakes and rivers?
This Native American group was named after the cry of the sandhill crane.
What is the Miami?
This word means a group of people who join together for a common purpose.
What is confederacy?
This group relied more on agriculture than on hunting and gathering.
What is the Mississippian?
The Miami people came to the area that is now Indiana because of these resources.
What are good farmland, hunting, and fishing?
Some Native Americans formed alliances with the British while others sided with the French because of these reasons.
What are trade and friendship?
This word means someone who studies artifacts and sites to learn about ancient people.
What is archaeologist?
This culture was known for building large towns and rectangular homes.
What is the Mississippians?
The Native American tribes got what they needed from the Europeans without using money because of this.
What is trading furs and guiding services for goods?
This led to British control over what is now called Indiana, which is why we speak English to this day here.
What is the British winning a war against the French and Native Americans?
This war was fought between the British and the French over control of the fur trade and territory which is now called Indiana.
What is the French and Indian war?