Migration
Adaptation
Cultural Regions
Indigenous Groups of the Arctic
Indigenous Groups of California
Great Basin
Plateau
Southwest
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
Southeast
100
Land Bridge connected Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
100
Early Indigenous people adapt to their environments.
What is by changing their lifestyles based on climate and natural resources?
100
The population of Indigenous people by the 1400s in North America.
What is millions?
100
Hunting and fishing.
What is the main source of food for Arctic Indigenous people?
100
Salmon and shellfish.
What are two types of food that coastal northern tribes in California primarily consumed?
100
Type of shelter did Indigenous people in the Great Basin used
What are cone-shaped structures made from willow poles and covered with brush or reeds?
100
Two major river systems were important for Indigenous groups in the Plateau region.
What are the Columbia and Fraser Rivers?
100
The tribe is known for successfully adapting to the hot, dry conditions of the Southwest.
What is the Diné (Navajo)?
100
Bison.
What animal was the primary food source for Great Plains tribes?
100
Algonquian and Iroquian.
What are two main languages spoken in the Eastern Woodlands?
100
The Natchez.
What tribe built towns around large dirt mounds?
200
Evidence suggests people lived in New Mexico 21,000–23,000 years ago.
What are archaeological findings?
200
The role that natural resources still plays in Indigenous cultures.
What is providing food, clothing, shelter, and cultural practices?
200
Grouping artifacts help historians understand Indigenous cultures.
What is by grouping tribes into cultural regions?
200
Preserving fish and oil in sea lion stomachs.
What is a tupiq?
200
Brush and whale bones.
What materials did Chumash homes use?
200
seeds, roots, berries, and pine nuts.
What was a primary food source for the Northern Shoshone during warmer months?
200
The main food source for Indigenous people in the Plateau region.
What is salmon?
200
The most important crop grown by Indigenous groups in the Southwest.
What is corn?
200
Surrounding herds on horseback, driving bison toward cliffs, using grass fires, or causing stampedes.
What are hunting methods used by the tribes of the Great Plains?
200
Longhouses.
What type of homes did Haudenosaunee families live in?
200
Initially burial places, later used as platforms for temples.
What was the purpose of the mounds created by the Natchez?
300
Climate change melting around 10,000 years ago impacted migration and their a claims that it will be a threat again in our life time.
What is the melting of glaciers?
300
How Yurok tribe manage their environment.
What is using controlled fires to promote plant growth?
300
One major cultural region north of Mexico.
What is the Great Plains?
300
A portable tent used by Inuit families during warmer months.
Describe the winter shelter used by Inuit families.
300
World Renewal ceremonies for good food and protection.
What ceremonies did the Tolowa tribe hold?
300
Being able to make shelter, follow food and practice traditions like, the Northern Shoshone.
What is traveling light with few possessions to find food?
300
The type of houses did the Schitsu'umsh live in.
What are large communal houses made from poles and woven reeds?
300
Homes built by mesa people in the Southwest.
What are thick-walled houses made of adobe with multiple stories?
300
The Comanche
Which tribe was known as the "Lords of the Plains"?
300
Women planted crops, processed deerskin, and managed food storage.
What was the role of women in agriculture among the Eastern Woodlands tribes?
300
They developed fast-growing corn varieties that supported food production for both the community and mound builders.
How did the Cherokee's farming practices benefit their community?
400
Large animal that early Siberian hunters followed into North America.
What is a mammoth?
400
Bark-covered House
What types of shelters did forest tribes use?
400
Managing beaver populations, like the Blackfoot tribe.
What is to avoiding hunting beavers?
400
They built iglus (snow shelters) for protection.
Describe the winter shelter used by Inuit families.
400
Deer or bighorn sheep.
What was one or two animal that inland tribes hunted in California?
400
Significant impacts colonization had on the Shoshone way of life.
What is loss of life, damaged food sources, and restricted movements?
400
Seasonal activities did Indigenous people in the Plateau region engage in during spring.
What is collecting wild onions, carrots, and camas?
400
Irrigation strategies that farmers in the Southwest used.
What are planting near flood-prone areas and building ditches and dams?
400
Hides sewn together and stretched over tall poles.
What materials were used to make tepees?
400
Men hunted animals and fished.
How did men contribute to the survival of Eastern Woodlands tribes?
400
Homes were built with young tree posts in rectangular frames, covered with mud plaster and pointed roofs made of leaves.
What was the construction of homes in the Southeast?
500
melting of glaciers affect that ended early migration routes.
What is the disappearance of Beringia?
500
Agricultural techniques did the Mandan and Hidatsa women developed.
What are special varieties of corn, beans, and squash?
500
Similarities that existed among tribes in similar environments.
What are similar shelter types and resource management practices?
500
Seals and whales.
What are two sea animals the Unangan relied on for survival?
500
They continue this cultural practice today, preserve by generational tribal members and origin stories.
How have traditional basket-making techniques survived colonization?
500
How the Shoshone prepared for winter.
What is drying meat and weaving warm robes from rabbit hides?
500
Indigenous people in the Plateau region utilize their environment for shelter.
What is building villages near rivers for water, fish, and firewood?
500
The Hopi developing "dry farming" techniques.
What is capturing and retaining soil to maximize water usage?
500
Colonization led to forced relocations to reservations and the near extinction of bison, disrupting traditional ways of life.
What lifestyle of Great Plains tribes was affected in the 1800s?
500
Corn and beans.
What were two major crops grown by the Eastern Woodlands tribes?
500
Forced relocation led to significant loss of life due to starvation and disease during their journey to western territories.
What was the impact of colonization on the Cherokee people?