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Native Americans
What is one name for the first people who lived here?
100
Hopewell
Who were the people who lived here long ago that buried their dead in mounds?
100
Artifacts
What are things left behind by people who lived here a long time ago called?
100
Examples include pottery, jewelry, and arrowheads
What are some examples of artifacts?
100
The Hopewell left artifacts in their mounds.
How do historians know about how the Hopewell lived?
200
The Hopewell piled dirt to make large mounds.
What is one way the Hopewell modified the environment?
200
Food or land may have been scarce where they once lived.
What may have pushed the first people to move to Michigan?
200
Kalamazoo and Muskegon are examples
What some of the names the Native Americans gave us that we use in our state?
200
birchbark
What did nature give the tribes to help them build their wigwams?
200
the people
What does Anishnabeg mean?
300
Because it is scarce to them and they need something
Why do people trade?
300
People who move from where they are to live in another land or country.
What is migrating?
300
the Three Fires
How can the Potawatomi, Ojibway, and Odawa be grouped?
300
snowshoes and tobbagans are examples
What are examples of some Native American inventions?
300
Making maple sugar and guidelines to live by are some examples.
What are some Native American Legends?
400
artists, business people, farmers, teachers, homemakers, etc.
What are some ways Native Americans make a living today?
400
They spoke a similar language and had similar customs.
Why were the Potawatomi, Ojibway, and Odawa grouped together?
400
big or great lake
What does the word "Michigan" mean?
400
They gathered stories from the tribe and wrote them down.
What did Henry and Jane Schoolcraft do?
400
Corn, pumpkins, squash, and beans are examples.
What are some foods we got from the Native Americans?
500
They collected sap from the maple tree and boiled it down.
How did the tribes get maple sugar?
500
Potawatomi
Which tribe lived in our part of the state during the 1700's?
500
They used animal skins and furs.
What did Native Americans use to make clothes long ago?
500
They learned by being with their dad and mom.
How were Native American children educated?
500
They buried them in dirt mounds.
How did the Hopewell bury their dead?