Native American Homes
These dome shaped homes were semi-permanent homes built using branches to create the dome shape and bark sheets to cover the dome frame.
What is a wigwam?
Word used to describe people who move from place to place during different seasons to find available food.
Nomadic
This region has extremely cold weather conditions.
What is the Arctic region?
Which Native American region lived near the Atlantic Ocean?
Pacific Northwest
This home is a cone shaped home built with long poles and covered in animal hides. It could be broken down to be moved from place to place.
What is a teepe?
These two kinds of small boats were used for transportation among many different tribes and are widely used still today.
What are kayaks and canoes?
This region consisted of mainly wooded areas.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
Which Native Americans were nomadic and moved from place to place?
The Plains
This home is very long and narrow. It was built using tree branches and tree bark. Several families would live together in this type of house.
What is a longhouse?
These statues were carved of cedar wood to tell stories or to honor family members that had past. They were made by the Northwestern tribes. This was a part of their religion
What are totem poles?
This region consisted mainly of desert.
What is the Southwest region?
The Southwest cultural region's climate is best described as:
Hot summers, Cold and dry winters
These homes were named after the clay, mud and dirt material used for homes in the southwest.
Pueblos (made from adobe)
Native Americans commonly used these types of stories to explain how things were created or to teach a lesson. They almost always were connected to nature in some way.
What are myths, legends, or folklore?
This region consisted of flat grasslands.
What is the Plains region?
What are some examples of what Native Americans used for their clothes?
Animal hide (deer skin and buffalo bone/skin)