Dig Into the Past
These scientists study objects and other clues to learn about people who lived long ago.
Archaeologists
Idaho has this many federally recognized tribes.Idaho has this many federally recognized tribes.
5
What is the name of the skeleton whose remains were found in Buhl, Idaho and who scientists determined lived about 10,000 years ago?
Buhla
What is the name of a written plan that explains how a government works.
A constitution
This word means customs or practices passed from one generation to the next.
Traditions
This is the name scientists use for the earliest peoples of the Americas.
Paleo-Indians
Which name does NOT belong on the chapter's list of Idaho tribes: Kootenai, Nez Perce, Shawnee, or Shoshone-Paiute?
Shawnee
This Kootenai leader led a peaceful effort in the 1970s to gain land and help for her people.
Amy Trice
This Kootenai facility opened in 1989 and helped protect white sturgeon.
The Kootenai hatchery
What is an archivist?
An archivist is someone who cares for records and historical materials.
These peoples lived after the Paleo-Indians.
Archaic Indians
This word means that a tribal nation governs itself.
Sovereign
This Shoshone-Bannock archivist worked with schools to share and preserve tribal history.
Velda Racehorse
This place near the Boise foothills was the center of a land disagreement in 1990.
Castle Rock
What is a tradition?
A tradition is a practice that helps carry heritage forward.
A pictograph is painted on rock. How is a petroglyph different?
A petroglyph is carved or pecked into rock.
The Nez Perce homeland covered about 17 million acres across these four present-day states.
Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana
This Pawnee Nation member served as Idaho attorney general and in federal Indian Affairs leadership.
Larry Echo Hawk
Courts decided that the state and a tribal government share responsibility for caring for this lake area.
Lake Coeur d'Alene
What is a treaty?
A treaty is an agreement between governments.
Explain how a tool or rock image can help us learn about people of the past.
A tool can give clues about how people hunted or worked. A rock image can give clues about what people recorded or expressed.
Name all five federally recognized tribes in Idaho.
Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Nez Perce Tribe, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
Choose Amy Trice or Velda Racehorse. Explain how her work helped her community.
Amy Trice worked to gain land and support for the Kootenai people. Velda Racehorse preserved tribal history and shared it with students. Accept either person with an accurate explanation.
Tribal members can also be U.S. citizens. Name two responsibilities or protections described in chapter 2.
They are protected by U.S. laws
they must follow U.S. laws
they must follow the laws of their tribe
Give on way Indigenous communities keep their cultures alive.
Teaching languages, passing down stories and traditions, preserving historical records, and holding cultural gatherings.