Native American Homes
This kind of home was built by the South West Indians. It was made of stone and mud and stood several stories high.
What is pueblo?
They group was in Florida. They ate fish and small animals. They made their clothes from cotton and trees. Their homes were called "chickees."
Who is the Southeast Native Americans?
This means to use the resources (land, animals, water) in your environment and surroundings in order to survive.
What is specialization?
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.
This group ate maize and buffalo. They used buffalo hides for their clothing, as well as for their teepees.
Who were the Plains Native Americans?
This kind of home was built by the South East Indians. It was made of palmetto bushes and cypress tree logs.
What is a chickee?
This group lived near the Arctic 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.
Who were the Arctic Native Americans?
A grain which has kernels which is often yellow, but can be various shades of red and brown enclosed in a leafy husk. It is an important food source.
What is corn?
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 Northwest used the Pacific Ocean for food and forests for clothing and shelter.
A broad, flat area of high land and covered in grasses.
What is a plain.
A cone-shaped tent, usually covered with animal skins, used as a home, especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.
What is a Teepee?
This group ate beans, pumpkins, and rabbits. The tribes that lived close to the Colorado River farmed, while the ones further from the river hunted. Their clothes were made from wool and animal skins. Their houses were called pueblos.
Who were the Southwest Native Americans?
An artifact still used today that was made from clay that are shaped while moist and hardened by heat.
What is clay pots?
Why did some Native American nations create permanent villages, while others remained non-permanent?
Some groups like the Plains had to travel with the food. The Plains followed the buffalo from place to place for food.
Give me 3 facts you learned our native americans unit.
Any acceptable answer.
A temporary house made of blocks of snow or ice in the form of a dome.
What is an igloo?
This group lived in the largest region. They used all parts of the buffalo to survive. They were non-permanent.
Who were the Plains Native Americans?
A pole made from wood that was used to tell a story.
What is a totem pole?
How would you describe the environment (land, climate, resources, and culture) of at least 1 Native American nation?
What animal did the Plains Native Americans help herd?
What is the buffalo?
Many Northeast Indians lived in these wooden structures made from tree wood.
What is longhouses or wigwams?
This groups had access to the Pacific Ocean, so they ate a lot of fish and whales. 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 built todum poles.
Who were the Northwest Native Americans?
A game still played today that uses a stick with a net. This is an example of a way the Native Americans contributed to American Life.
What is Lacrosse?
Tell how one Native American Region contributed to American Life.
Any acceptable answer.
In what type of home did Southeast Native Americans build?
What are chickees?