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Society and Organization
Transportation
Art and Artifacts
Food and Shelter
Religion and Whaling
100
These Native Americans had a more equitable society where everyone had equal responsibilities and could vote.
What are Plateau Native Americans?
100
A major source of transportation for the Plateau Indians.
What are horses?
100
Beads were an important element in this group's art and clothing.
What is Plateau?
100
A major food source for both Coastal and Native Americans?
What is Salmon?
100
This is a highly controversial practice condemned by animal rights activists that is still practiced today.
What is whaling?
200
A party thrown by Coastal Indians to show of the wealth of their tribe's leader.
What is a potlatch?
200
This was an important river that provided food and transportation for the Plateau people.
What is the Columbia River?
200
The Seahawk was an important creature for the tribes of this group.
What is Coastal Native Americans.
200
A permanent house that Coastal Native Americans lived in.
What is a long house?
200
This people of this tribe were experienced whale hunters.
What is Makah?
300
These tribes had leisure time to spend on recreation and art because of the abundance of food in their area.
What are Coastal Indians?
300
A major source of transportation for Coastal Indians.
What are canoes?
300
A permanent piece of art that told the stories of wealthy families from Coastal tribes.
What is a totem pole?
300
A temporary shelter that Plateau Native Americans used in the summer and spring.
What is a teepee?
300
This is a religious ceremony celebrated by the Plateau Native Americans.
What is a Pow Wow?
400
This group of PNW Indigenous people had a very strict social structure. Extra credit ( 50 points) : What did this social structure look like?
What are the Coastal Native Americans? Chiefs were the highest, then nobles, commoners, and slaves.
400
Moving from place to place; this is what the Plateau Native Americans were.
What is nomadic?
400
The people of this group wore elaborate headdresses made with eagle feathers, beads, and feathers.
What is Plateau?
400
The Coastal Native Americans did this to catch most of their food.
What is fishing?
400
The spiritual leader of the Plateau Indians who also served as the tribe's doctor.
What is a shaman?
500
This determined how a person became a chief in Plateau society.
What is ability and character?
500
This essential factor played an important role in shaping the way that both Plateau and Coastal Indians traveled.
What is geography?
500
This tree is a very important and sacred tree for the Coastal Native Americans. It was used for clothes, houses, art and canoes.
What is Red Cedar?
500
This is one of the main reasons that Plateau Native Americans were nomadic.
What is lack of food and resources?
500
A building with wooden frames and mud walls, that Plateau Native Americans used during religious ceremonies. They are the equivalent of today's sauna.
What are sweat lodges.