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People or animals moving from one region or location to another
What is migration?
Deer and bear skins made into leather.
What is buckskin?
The time span when the earth's climate was much colder.
What is the Ice Age?
The time period that the Native Americans lived.
What is the Stone Age?
A person who studies the past, places, events, and people.
What is a historian?
Home built by Iroquois tribesman in which many families lived.
What is a longhouse?
Shelter located in southwestern Pennsylvania where archeologists found evidence of humans from long ago.
What is Meadowcroft Rockshelter?
They prepared two meals a day, made the clothing, took care of the babies, and did the gardening.
What were the chores of the women?
The ideas, beliefs, and values of a specific social or ethnic group.
What is a culture?
Some round, rectangle, or cone shaped homes built by Algonquin tribesman.
What is a wigwam?
The continent historians believe Native Americans migrated from 12,000 years ago.
What is Asia?
This bark made a better canoe that lasted longer and was lighter.
What is birch bark?
People who dig up and study old remains of past cultures.
What is an archeologist?
Small shell beads from sea animals that were woven or sewn into belts and strings.
What is wampum?
The most useful vegetable of the Eastern Woodland tribes.
What is corn?
Buildings where heated rocks were placed in water The steam that was given off cured illnesses and cleaned the body.
What is a sweat lodge?
Groups of Native American family members who lived in small villages.
What is a clan?
Trading for a needed or wanted item.
What is bartering?
They cut down trees, built homes, made weapons, and protected their families.
What were the chores of the men?
This color was used in the wampum to mean war, sadness, or bad news.
What is black?