Vocab
Objects made by groups of humans, such as tools and clothes?
What are artifacts?
This tribe was from the Eastern Woodlands and created houses called wigwams. They used animals and many objects combined to create artifacts and resources.
Who are the Algonquins?
The clay pot for storing water was made by this tribe in this region.
Who are the Hopi in the Southwest Region?
This region had swamps and lots of mosquitoes. Tribes build chickees to live in.
What is the Southeast?
This region has 4 seasons and stretched from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
The ways of living of different groups of people?
What is culture?
This tribe built their winter homes mostly underground in the Plateau Region.
Who are the Yakima?
A woven-grass basket hats were created by this tribe in this region
Who are the Yakima in the Plateau Region?
Very little rain, extreme temperatures, few plants and trees, caused tribes to build pueblos from adobe and stone in this region.
What is the Southwest?
This region is between the Cascade and Rocky mountains. It was part of the northwestern states and British Columbia.
What is the Plateau?
Areas of the world where people develop similar ways of life
What are cultural regions?
This tribe used redwood trees to build their homes. They also made clamshell necklaces.
Who are the Pomos?
Who are the Sioux in the Great Plains?
This region had a lot of cedar trees which the Kwakiutl used to make fish traps and totem poles.
What is the Northwest Coast?
This region was south of the Inuit and was a narrow strip that stretched along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California.
What is the Northwest Coast?
Moving from place to place, usually with the seasons.
What is nomadic?
This tribe wrapped cool cotton cloth as clothing since it was so hot in the region. They used plants and minerals to dye the fabric.
Who are the Hopi?
Grass baskets decorated with shells, beads, and feathers were created by this tribe in this region.
Who are the Pomos in the California-Intermountain Region?
This region mostly had grasslands with cold winters and hot summers. The Sioux used every part of the buffalo found in this region.
What is the Great Plains?
This region extended from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River Valley. It also stretched from Canada to Texas.
What is the Great Plains?
A flat-topped hill area with steep sides
What is a mesa?
Despite the temperature, this tribe wore leggings of deer hide to prevent being bitten by mosquitoes.
Who are the Seminoles?
A birch-bark canoe was created by this tribe is this region.
Who are the Algonquian in the Eastern Woodland Region?
This region had gorges, flatlands, and rolling hills. It had plenty of water because of the Columbia and Fraser Rivers. The camas root was important to the Yakima because there were few animals in this region.
What is the Plateau Region?
This region included northern Mexico and contained mesas.
What is the Southwest?