Types of Shelters
Houses built against canyon walls or caves by the Puebloans
Pueblos
Division of labor
Dividing jobs to make it possible to produce more
What is one theory for how people migrated to the Americas?
Bering Strait land bridge, by boat
Why were trees important tribes in the Eastern Woodlands?
used for canoes, shelters, tools, weapons, provided food
Most important animal
Buffalo
Cone-shaped tent
Tepee
Civilization
A group of people with ways of life, religion and learning
Long periods of freezing cold (hint the age of the wooly mammoth)
Ice Ages
Common crops
corn, beans, squash
What were Buffalo used for?
making clothing, tools, food, and shelter
Long wooden buildings
Longhouses
Ancestor
An early family member
How did the early people in the Americas pass down their history?
Oral story telling
What did the Algonquian's use to make hooks and fish traps?
bones and wood
Sod
A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses used to build lodges
Round bark covered shelters
Wigwams
Ceremony
celebration to honor a cultural or religious event
A group of many Native American societies that build large earth mounds
Mound Builders
How many tribes were in the Iroquois League?
5
What did the plains people use for fuel for their fires?
Buffalo droppings or Buffalo chips
Large round earthen houses
Lodges
Scarce
In short supply
Name one plains tribe
Iowa, Missouri, Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Blackfoot
Wampum
beads cut from seashells
Pemmican
a dried meat that could be stored