Native American Homes
Native American Groups
Vocabulary
Essential Questions
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This kind of home was built by the Nez Percé Indians. It was of 12 poles covered with grass mats or bison skin.

What is Tepee?

100

This tribe was from the southeast of Oregon. They ate deer, fish and small animals and many plants from the land. They made their clothes from tules, willow, and sage. Their homes were Willow Framed Houses.

What is Northern Paiute?

100

Examples of this include long houses, plank houses, earth covered lodges, wikiups, tipi's, and tepee's. 

What is shelter?

100
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 Pawnee traveled so they could find buffalo to eat and survive. The Inuit built Igloos during the winter to survive.
100

large salmon are named for this tribe as well as the language they spoke

What is Chinook?

200

This kind of home was built by the Tillamook, Chinook, and Takelma. It often had a fire in the center.

What is a long or plank house?

200

This tribe lived on the coast and near the ocean. They ate fish, seals, elk, bear, deer and much more. They were often barefoot. They didn't eat cheese.

What is the Tillamook?

200

The main food for many tribes, and all of the tribes enjoyed this water animal. It is an important food source.

What is salmon?

200
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.
200

A broad, flat area of high land.

What is a plateau?

300
A cone-shaped tent, usually covered with animal skins, used as a home, especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.
What is a tipi?
300

This tribe was from the south and southwest Oregon. They ate a lot of salmon, steelhead, and trout and other big game animals. They used many acorns in their diet as well as plants, roots, and berries. The Camas bulb was very important. They used smoke signals to communicate. 


What is Takelma?

300
Articles made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is pottery?
300

Native American tribes created permanent villiages, while others had the ability to move with the seasons and food

What are groups like the Northern Paiute, who had to travel with the seasons to get food. 

The Nez Perce followed the buffalo from place to place for food.

300
Give me 3 facts you learned during your research project.
What is show the teacher.
400

A temporary house made with a usually oval base and a rough frame covered with reed mats, grass, or brushwood

What is a wikiup?

400
This tribe lived near the plateau region, between plains and the northwest. They ate moose, bear, and salmon. Their clothes were made of animal skins, mainly buckskin. They built their homes out of mude.
What is Nez Perce?
400

Colored symbols or boxes that describe and define the parts of a map 

What is a legend or key?

400

How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?

Nez Perce - Northeast Oregon, lived in plateau area between the plains and northwest, cold winters and moderate summers, ate buffalo, wore buck skins

Klamath- Klamath lakes
Northern Paiute- Great Basin
Chinook-Northwest
Tillamook- Northern Oregon coast/rivers, low mountains
Takelma- Southwestern Oregon

400

The tribes that lived on the land, collecting food from nature, and used the resources that they had in their environment.

What are all of the tribes?

500

Many Native Americans lived in these wooden structures made from tree wood. They were also known as longhouses.

What are plankhouses?

500

This tribe was from Northwest Oregon. They had access to the Pacific Ocean, so they ate a lot of fish, especially salmon, and seals. They also had access to huge forests with lots of trees. They used these trees to make clothing as well as their plankhouses. They also used fur.

What is the Chinook?

500

A social event or ceremony used by many Tribes. It usually marked important life events such as feasts, memorials, marriage, etc.

What is a potlatch?

500

How did the physical features (Great Plains, rivers, plateau,  Coastal Plains, Great Basin), affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?

The Nez Perce lived in the Great Basin with the plateau. They could travel after buffalo. 

They Chinook, Tillamook, and Nez Perce also live by big rivers and used canoes. 

Other tribes made rafts.

Some made plank homes partly buried yet others would travel with their home during different seasons.

500

The two tribes that didn't wear moccasins or sandals

What are the Chinook and Tillamook tribes.