Technology
Native tribes used parts from this animal to make utensils, weapons, and jewelry
What is the bison (buffalo)?
The Wichita tribe built grass-covered houses that had this shape
What is a beehive?
More rainfall in Eastern Kansas allowed tribes like the Osage to do this for a reliable food source
What is plant/grow crops?
Native peoples used these as material to make clothing
What are animal (deer) skins?
The Wichita and Pawnee both entered their homes through doorways facing this direction
What is East?
This weapon was more powerful than the atlatl and allowed Native Kansans to hunt large animals
What is the bow and arrow?
Western tribes often did this to distinguish their tipis from others
What is decorate them?
Osage hunters traveled to hunt bison this many times per year
What is two?
Wichita men decorated their bodies with tattoos and this dangly jewelry
What are earrings?
This man was assigned to work with the Osage tribe and report to the government in the 1800s
Who is George Sibley?
Nomadic tribes used horses and dogs to pull these carriers used to transport tipis and other supplies
What is a travois?
The Pawnee covered their homes with this material
What is mud?
One of the two common crops grown by sedentary tribes in Kansas
What is corn or squash?
Money is rarely discovered at ancient tribal sites. This tells us that indigenous peoples did this instead
What is barter/trade items for other items?
Satanta was a chief of this nomadic Kansas tribe
What is the Kiowa?
This is one of the ways that the early people of Kansas got new technologies
What is inventing things or receiving new ideas from other people/groups?
These tribe members were responsible for constructing the Wichita's lodges
Who were the women and children?
One type of animal that Native tribes hunted in addition to bison
What are bear, beaver, deer, elk, rabbit?
The Pawnee studied the movement of these and used them to set their calendar
What are stars?
This tribe was run by a political unit called the Ne ke a Shin ka, or the Society of Little Old Men
What is the Osage?
We know about different types of native technologies because of the work of this kind of researcher who finds and examines ancient artifacts
What is an archaeologist?
The Kansa tribe lived in longhouses covered with this
Wichita and Pawnee tribe members did this to preserve and store the vegetables that they grew
What is cut, dried, then wove them into mats?
Because they did not have paper, Native tribes kept records on these
What are animal hides?
The Kansa taught the Osage the Ilon shka, a special one of these to preserve their traditions
What is a dance?