Land Bridge
What was the name of the land bridge?
Beringia
What is the Native American tribe that lived in the Far North?
Inuit
The Ancestral Pueblo were which of the following (pick 1):
Cherokee, mound builders, cliff dwellers or hunter-gatherers
cliff dwellers
Because they were famers, what were the Mound Builders able to do?
Stay in one place
Name 2 tribes that lived in the Eastern Woodlands.
Haudenosaunee, Ojibwa, Mahican, Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga
What two continents did the land bridge connect?
Asia and North America
What did the Inuit call their special canoe made from animal hide?
kayak
What do we call the area where the Ancestral Pueblo now live?
Four Corners, Southeast, Beringia or Eastern Woodlands
Four Corners
What tribes are descendants of the Mound Builders?
Cherokee, Creek, Seminole
What types of shelter did the Eastern Woodlands tribes live in?
wigwams and longhouses
Why weren't the Inuit able to farm?
It was too cold and icy. There was not a long enough growing season.
What tribes are descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo?
Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Apache, Comanche, Pueblo
What types of houses did the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole build?
Wood frame houses made with woven vies and branches plastered with mud
What are The Three Sisters?
corn, beans and squash
Why were the hunter-gatherers nomadic?
They were following the herds searching for food.
What did the Inuit live in?
Igloos and tents
adobe bricks
What do we call the family groups many tribes including the Seminole and the Cherokee were divided into?
clans
What was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
What types of animals were they hunting during this time?
mastodon, mammoth, musk ox, ground sloth
What types of animals did the Inuit hunt?
fish, walrus, whales, seals, caribou, polar bears
What are the 4 crops the Southwestern tribes were able to grow?
corn, squash, beans and melons
Why did the population of Native Americans rapidly decrease?
Europeans brought disease.