Eastern Woodlands
Name the two types of houses they lived in.
Wigwams and longhouses
What type of houses did they live in?
Teepees
What was scarce in this area?
Water
What was their clothing mainly made from?
Animal skins, fur
What did young boys do when they were ready to become adults?
Vision quest
What foods were known as The Three Sisters?
Corn, beans, and squash
What animal was most important to them?
Buffalo
What was their clothing mainly made from?
Cotton
What were the two types of houses they built?
Plank houses and igloos
What did they use to cleanse themselves from evil spirits and sicknesses?
Sweat lodges
What was the name of the shoes they wore?
Moccasins
What is the land like here?
Mostly flat & rolling land
What did they use to build pueblos?
Adobe
What did they make to tell stories, display social status and welcome visitors?
Totem Poles
What do we call a system in which the mother's family determines her children's right to land?
Matrilineage
What did they make to tell about important events or stories?
Wampum
What word means moving from place to place?
Nomadic
What are the two types of houses they built?
Pueblos and hogans
Snow and ice igloos were fashioned by people who lived in this region of the Northwest.
Arctic
For the wampum belts, what two colors did they use and what did they represent?
White beads meant peace, purple beads meant conflict
What type of areas did they mostly live in?
Forests
What part of the buffalo was used to make knives, arrowheads, and shovels?
Bones
What was given to children that represented spirits?
Kachina dolls
What was their main source of food?
Fishing
What were the three main tribes of the Lenni Lenape?
Munsee, Unami, Unalachtigo