Interesting Facts
Mr. Ridlers favority animal is this (In Ojibwe)
miskwaadesi
This "box" was embroidered on the top with dyes and formed on the bottom as a basket.
Quill Box
This is a wall made of sharpened tree trunks that protected Native American villages from enemies and wild animals.
Palisade
An Iroqouis messenger would sometimes run up to how much a day?
50 miles
This tribe had their own language. Their name means "Fire-keepers."
Potawatomi
Some Native Americans today live on lands given to them by the Government. These lands are called what?
Reservations
These "Three sisters" were vegetables grown together to provide plentiful food and keep the soil fertile and healthy.
Corn, Squash, Beans
A method of clearing fields using fire or tools and using the flattened terrain to grow crops.
Slash-and-burn
The 5 largest tribes of the Iroquois shared a common form of government known as the league of nations. They worked together to make laws. This was known as what?
The Great Council or a confederation
This tribe was the enemy of the Algonquin tribes. The largest nations within this nation were the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks.
Iroquois
The Native Americans have provided for themselves by building giant ___________ used for gambling.
Casinos
This was used so that mothers could carry their infants on their back.
Cradleboard
A long wooden building that housed where several families lived together.
Longhouse
These were the shoes of the Iroqouis People
Moccasins
This tribe was known by four different names. Their name is translated to "Puckered," likely due to the style of shoe they wore.
Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa)
Music of the Native Americans included these two crucial instruments
Drums and Flutes
This type of bark was used by many native tribes to make shelters, form baskets, and make canoes.
Birch Bark
A bark covered shelter for an individual family.
Wigwam
These individuals gave names to the Iroqouis People, sometimes 5 in their lifetime.
Mothers
A group of tribes who lived along the coastal plains and into the Midwest. (Hint: included all of the tribes that we studied!)
The Algonquians
This is how most scientists believe the earliest native Americans came from Asia to the Americas.
The Bering Land Bridge
A traditional weapon of Native Americans, this weapon was used by men and young boys to kill their prey from a distance.
Bow and Arrow
Wampum
The Iroqouis were the enemies of which Native American Tribe?
This tribe lived on the northern shores of Lake Huron and were known as accomplished traders-- in fact, their name means "traders."
Ottawa (Also Odawa, Odaawa)