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Vocabulary
Houses
People
Culture
Food
100
"villages"
What is pueblo?
100
Cone-shaped tents made of animal skins.
What is a teepee?
100
A group of families who share the same ancestor.
What is a clan?
100
A calendar that the Lakota used to record events.
What is a wintercount?
100
Dried meat
What is jerky?
200
The settling of a dispute by agreeing that each side will give up something.
What is a compromise?
200
A long building made of poles and covered in bark.
What is a long house?
200
"Gentle People"
Who are the Hopi?
200
A long log carved with many designs.
What is a totem pole?
200
The yearly return of this fish to lay eggs in the freshwater rivers where they were born that can provide 1000 pounds of food for a family.
What is the salmon?
300
A sled-like device used for pulling things.
What is a travois?
300
A type of clay used to make Hopi homes.
What is adobe?
300
The ancestors of today's Pueblo peoples.
Who are the Anasazi?
300
Special feasts at which the guests, not the hosts, receive gifts.
What is a potlatch?
300
A way of growing crops in places where there is little water.
What is dry farming?
400
The design and use of tools, ideas, and methods to solve problems.
What is technology?
400
Tall logs carved with many designs that were in front of most Tlingit homes.
What are totem poles?
400
The Peace Maker
Who is Deganawida?
400
Small polished beads that were usually made from shells and then strung or woven together.
What is wampum?
400
In Iroquois culture, the people mainly responsible for growing and harvesting crops.
Who are women?
500
"strike" or "hit"
What is coup?
500
Homes made of logs covered with grasses, sticks, and soil.
What is a lodge?
500
The Hopi woman who carried on the Hopi pottery tradition.
Who is Nampeyo?
500
Spirits thought to visit Hopi villages for half of every year.
What are kachinas?
500
A food made with berries, fat, and jerky.
What is pemmican?