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100
Name the famous Sauk war chief.
Who is Black Hawk
100
According to archeologists, human being have lived in North America for __________ years.
What is 20,000
100
Earlier generations of people.
What are descendants.
100
Large waterway that creates the eastern border of Iowa.
What is Mississippi River
200
Iowa gets its name from what Native American tribe?
Who are the Ioway
200
The first Native Americans were the first to discover that ________ grows well in the rich Iowa soil.
What is corn.
200
One river that flows into another
What is tributary river
200
The land the United States bought on the west side of the Mississippi River in what is now Eastern Iowa, was known as the _______ ________ purchase.
What is Black Hawk
300
The _______ and ___________ were the strongest tribes along the Mississippi River.
Who are Sauk and Mesquakie
300
Through trade with the French, the Ioway Indians acquired _______, which changed the way they hunted.
What are guns.
300
People who travel from place to place with no permanent home.
What are nomads
300
Home of the Mesquakie tribe today.
What is Tama
400
Name the Sauk chief who advised his people to build on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River.
Who is Keokuk.
400
The _________________ piled huge mounds of dirt into shapes of sacred animals to remember their dead.
What is Moundbuilders
400
Someone who studies artifacts
What is archaeologist
400
Name the largest Sauk village.
What is Saukenuk
500
The Mesquakie Indians were referred to as what by the white Europeans?
What is Fox
500
The Sauk tribe was originally from Northern _____________.
What is Michigan
500
Things, materials, and remnants of people who lived before us.
What are artifacts.
500
Mounds in NE Iowa where Native American burial sites are found.
What are Effigy Mounds