Vocab 1
An object made or used by a human being from the past.
What is an artifact?
A large wigwam that housed many Native American families.
What is a longhouse?
What is there are no written records about them/they were around before written history?
The reason why Maine's 5 major tribes are considered historic.
*Bonus 100 points if you can name the people that made this happen.
What are there are written records about them by the Europeans?
Who are the Wabanaki women?
A scientist who digs for and studies artifacts from the past.
What is an archaeologist?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
The first group of people to ever come to Maine after the Ice Age.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
What is the Penobscot?
The 5 tribes that came together to form the Wabanaki Confederation.
Who are the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Micmac?
An ancient garbage dump of shells and bones.
What is a shell midden?
A group of tribes or nations that work together to protect their land from other tribes.
What is a confederation?
The names of the 3 prehistoric groups that first came to Maine.
What are the Paleo-Indians, Archaic Indians, and People of the Ceramic Period?
Today, Maine's historic tribes live on ________________ throughout Maine and Canada.
What are reservations?
What is to protect their land from other tribes?
A small Native American house made from saplings and birch bark.
What is a wigwam?
A sled that travels quickly over snow and ice.
What is a toboggan?
What is archaeology / archaeologists digging up artifacts and studying them?
The names of the 5 historic tribes in Maine.
What are the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Micmac?
How life started to majorly changed for the Wabanaki.
What is the European settlers started coming?
What are petroglyphs?
Small shells or beads used for trade and as money.
What is wampum?
About how many years ago the first people came to Maine.
What is 11,000?
Maine's 5 major tribes all speak languages from a family of languages called __________________.
What is Algonquin?
How the Wabanaki lived in harmony with the seasons.
What is where they lived and the work they did depended on the seasons?