Native American Homes
This home is built out of compressed snow building blocks stacked around a circular hole in the snowy ground.
What is an igloo?
This animal was the primary food source of the Plains tribes. After the meat was eaten, the rest of the animal was the primary natural resource for the tribes used to make their tools, homes, and clothing.
What is bison or buffalo?
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 consists of mainly wooded areas.
What are the Eastern Woodlands?
Furniture built by the Iroquois to save space in crowded living environments?
What are bunkbeds?
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 teepee/tipi?
This was the main traditional food source eaten by the tribes of the Arctic Region.
What is meat- whale, seal, caribou, etc.?
These statues were carved of cedar wood to tell stories or to honor family members that had past.
What are totem poles?
This region consists of flat grasslands.
What is the Plains region?
Material which was first used to make balls featured in the ceremonial games of Mesoamericans.
What is rubber?
This home is very long and narrow. It was built using wooden poles and strips of tree bark. Several families would live together in this type of house.
What is a longhouse?
Corn, cotton, sunflowers, beans, cacti, and insects were staple foods of this tribal region.
Who were the Southwestern Tribes?
Term given to Native American societies that built large earthworks for burial and ceremonial purposes.
This region consists of desert and plateaus.
What is the Southwest region?
A popular sport around the world today, this contact sport was first played by many indigenous tribes in North America requiring two teams with sticks featuring nets.
What is lacrosse?
These homes were named after the clay, mud and dirt material used for building in the southwest.
What is a pueblo? (made from adobe)
Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest define themselves as _______ People due to the enormous importance of this food source.
What is Salmon?
Small cactus with hallucinogenic effects- used by several Native American cultures for ceremonial, medicinal, and spiritual purposes.
What is peyote?
This region consists of temperate rainforests and mountains.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
The Native Americans of the Arctic Region invented these to help with snow blindness.
What are goggles?
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?
This popular combo of maize, beans, and squash is commonly known as “The Three ________“ by many tribes.
What is The Three Sisters?
This object was used in religious ceremonies to instruct children in the ways of Hopi tradition and belief.
What are Kachina Dolls?
This region has extremely cold weather conditions.
What is the Arctic region?
A method of preserving food through a low temperature dehydration process, used by Incan communities in the Andes region.
What is freeze-drying?