VOCABULARY
Native American Cultures
Map and Geography
Native American Adaptation
Culture and Society
100

A large house where many Native American families lived together.

What is a longhouse?

100

The Native American groups on the Western Plains relied on this animal for food, shelter, and clothing.

What is the buffalo?

100

The Native American group that lived near Lake Ontario.

Who are the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida?

100

The Southwest Indians had to rely on this to grow their crops because of the dry conditions.

What is irrigation?

100

The hosts of this event gave valuable gifts to their guests to show their wealth and status.

What is a potlatch?

200

The movement of animals or people from one region to another.

What is migration?

200

The Haudenosaunee families lived in these types of homes.

What are longhouses?

200

This river was an important resource for Native American tribes, providing water, transportation, and food.

What is the Mississippi River?

200

The main reason why some tribes became nomadic, moving from place to place.

What is to follow animal herds for food?

200

This important event allowed the Haudenosaunee to make their nation stronger.

What is the creation of a confederation?

300

The ceremony where gifts are given to show wealth and status.

What is a potlatch?

300

The name of the ancient civilization that lived in the American Southwest and built underground rooms called kivas.

Who were the Anasazi (or Ancient Pueblo)?

300

This region’s tribes depended on the sea, rivers, and forests for their way of life.

What is the Pacific Northwest?

300

The buffalo was an essential resource for this Native American group, providing food, shelter, and clothing.

Who are the Plains Indians?

300

Why were kivas built underground by the Anasazi (Pueblo)?

For religious ceremonies.

400

A person who moves from place to place in search of food.

What is a nomad?

400

The league formed by the Haudenosaunee tribes to strengthen their nation.

What is the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy?

400

The geographic feature that appeared between Alaska and Asia during the Ice Age, allowing migration to North America.

What is the Beringia land bridge?

400

The Native American group that depended on salmon, animal furs, and forests for survival.

Who are the tribes of the Pacific Northwest?

400

Describe one reason why horses were important for Plains Indians.

They were used for hunting buffalo and traveling great distances.

500

The name of the natural land bridge that connected Asia and North America during the Ice Age.

What is Beringia?

500

What important role did clan mothers play in the Haudenosaunee government?

They had the power to choose and remove chiefs.

500

Name two Haudenosaunee tribes that lived near Lake Ontario.

Who are the Seneca and Cayuga?

500

How did the Southwest tribes adapt to the harsh desert environment to grow crops?

By building irrigation systems.

500

What was the purpose of the potlatch ceremony among Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest?

What is to show wealth and status by giving gifts to guests?