Native American Housing
Domed houses made from blocks of snow.
What are igloos?
This event allowed people to cross from Asia to North America thousands of years ago.
What is the Ice Age?
A person related to previous generations of ancestors.
Who are descendants?
These elevated locations were built by Mississippians.
What are mounds?
How many colonies were part of the American Revolution?
What were thirteen/13?
Used by plains people, these were portable, cone-shaped homes.
What are tepees?
In addition to traveling over land to North America, scholars believe early people may have traveled by this.
What is a boat/maritime/aquatic travel?
Something that is built or constructed.
What is a structure?
Corn, Squash, and Beans.
What are the Three Sisters?
The first Europeans to establish colonies in North America.
Who were the Spanish?
A home formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a round frame.
What is a wigwam?
An alliance of five Iroquois Nations.
What was the Iroquois League?
A group of people chosen to manage the affairs of a community.
What is a council?
This was a ceremony in which a high-ranking family had a feast and gave gifts to their guests.
What is a potlatch?
Name the four European powers that had colonies in North America.
Who were the Spanish, French, BRitish, and Dutch?
Similar to a wigwam, this house was rectangular and instead contained multiple families.
What is a longhouse?
The landmass between Asia and North America crossed by early peoples.
What was Beringia?
An association formed to work together on shared goals, such as military goals.
What is an alliance?
The leader of an Iroquois clan, who could be removed from power by the women of a tribe.
What is a hoyaneh?
These Europeans colonizers formed alliances with indigenous people in Canada based on marriage and the fur trade.
Who were the French?
Ancient Pueblo Indians lived in these, carved into rock faces.
What are cliff dwellings?
What was Cahokia?
To be lacking in quantity or quality.
What is meager?
This two horned animal roamed the plains, and was relied upon by many Native Americans for food and shelter.
What are buffalo/bison?
I was the first viking to reach North America.
Who was Leif Erickson.