Native American Homes
This kind of home was built with a mixture of sun-dried earth and straw called adobe.
What is pueblo?
This tribe was from the Eastern part of North America called the Eastern Woodlands. They hunted fish, deer and black bears. They made their clothes from deerskin and they had shoes called moccasins. Their homes were called "longhouses."
What is Iroquois?
This is a resource that comes directly from the Earth.
What is natural resource?
How does environment affect where you live?
Possible answers: You have to have food, water, and shelter in order to survive. Therefore, you will choose a location where you can find these things. The Inuits lived in below freezing areas and they depended on animals that lived in this region and made their homes from ice and snow.
What item of clothing from the Lakota Indians do many people wear today?
What is moccasin?
This kind of home was built by the Lakota Indians. It was made of buffalo skins held up by wooden poles.
What is a teepee?
This tribe lived in the Artic Reagion, near the Artic Ocean. They ate fish, seals, and whales. They made their clothes from animal skins with fur and duck feathers. They needed their clothes to stay warm.
What is Inuit?
This means to make products out of something.
What is produce?
How does the environment affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Native Americans could only use the resources that were in its environment. For example, the Kwakiutl used the Pacific Ocean for food and forests for clothing and shelter.
Items from the past (hunting tools, clay pots, clothes)
What is an artifact?
The Kwakiutl Indians lived in homed known as long houses or ____ houses.
What is a plank?
This tribe was from a region called the Great Plains. They grew crops such as pumpkins, maize and beans. Their clothes were made from deer and antelope skins. Their houses were called teepees.
What is Lakota?
This resource are the goods produced and used to make other resources.
What is capital resource?
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villiages, while others remained nomads?
Some groups had to travel to find their food and others farmed and grew their crops.
What is the oldest archeology cite in North America?
What is Cactus Hill, VA?
A temporary house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.
What is an igloo?
This tribe lived mainly in the Basin Range region of North America. They ate deer, bear, rabbits and berries. Their clothes were made of cotton, fur and leather. They built their homes out of adobe and were called pueblos.
What is Pueblo?
Merchandise or possessions. Examples of these from the Native Americans are beans, cotton, peanuts, fur, weapons and tools
What is goods?
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?
Kwakiutl - forests and ocean, cold winters and moderate summers, trees for homes and clothing, potlatches for celebrations Inuit - ice and snow, extreme cold, Artic Ocean for food, caribou for clothing
Inuit - Lived in below freezing temperatures in Arctic Areas much of the year. They followed roaming herds of Caribou and other animals. They made simple houses that were temporary.
Lakota - Lived in the Great Plains and had hot summers and long winters. They hunted animals and grew crops. their homes and clothing were made from animal skins.
Pueblo- They lived in what is now New Mexico and Arizona (Basin and Range). The climate was hot and dry. They collected wild berries and hunted bear, rabbits and antelope. Their homes were made from adobe.
Iroquois - they lived in the Eastern part of north America that is covered in thick forests, mountains, rivers, hills and streams. They got plenty of rain and grew beans, corn and squash. They also gathered nuts and berries. Their homes were called longhouses.
What animal did the Inuits follow?
Caribou and migrating birds.
Many Iroquois lived in these structures made from bent wooden poles and sheets of elm bark. These were also known as .
What are longhouses?
This resource are the people working to produce goods and services.
What is human resource?
How did the physical features affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
Some tribes were nomads and traveled while others built permanent homes.
What water transportation did the Kwakitutl make?
What is canoe?