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Vocabulary
Multiple Choice
Houses
Regions
Traditions
100
Families who share the same ancestors
What is a clan.
100
The confederacy that brought together five tribes to form one strong group.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy.
100
A mountain or hill with a flat top and steep sides.
What is a mesa.
100
A region in Northeastern Arizona with tall mountains, deep canyons, and steep mesas where this tribe lived.
What is the Hopi
100
The Hopi believed this doll held the spirit of an ancestor.
What is the kachina doll.
200
a type of clay used for building by Native Americans.
What is adobe.
200
The direction in which the Lakota winter count moves.
What is counterclockwise.
200
A long building made of poles covered with sheets of bark.
What is a longhouse.
200
The area known as this _______, is where the Navajo live in the United States
What is the Four Corners Region.
200
This Native American group is very good at______?
What is weaving.
300
Flat or gently rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers.
What is a prairie.
300
The Lakota used the buffalo for these reasons.
What is for food, clothing, and tools.
300
Hopi apartment-style homes.
What is a pueblo.
300
These two Native American groups lived in the region known as the Woodlands areas east of the Mississippi river.
Who are the Algonkian and the Iroquois.
300
These people were the leaders of the tribes clans.
Who are the women, or Clan Mothers.
400
The settling of a dispute by each side agreeing to give up part of its demands.
What is a compromise.
400
A woodlands village home with bent sapling frames covered with cattail mats or elm bark.
What is a wigwam.
400
This Native American group lived in a region known as the Plains.
Who are the Lakota.
400
A celebration in which the guest, not the host, receive gifts in the Tlingit Tribe.
What is a potlatch.
500
Polished beads used in gift-giving and trading by Native Americans; necklaces or belt.
What are wampums.
500
The Lakota used this to show bravery by touching, not killing, his enemy.
What is a coup stick.
500
Domed shaped dwelling made with log or stick frames that are covered with mud or sod.
What is a hogan.
500
This Native American group lived in the western part of the United States and near the Northwest coastline.
Who are the Tlingit.
500
A tall carved log used by Native Americans of the Northwest Coast to honor an important person or to mark a special event.
What is a totem pole.