Which Region?
This region is hot and dry with a lot of sun and very little rain.
What is the Southwest Region?
Describe the environment in the NW Region.
What is lots of rain, rivers, streams, pacific ocean, forests, lots of evergreen trees (i.e. cedar which was used to make totem poles), etc.
This is an artform that the southwest tribes are known for, often using patterns and geometric shapes in the design.
What is pottery?
These homes were made with animals hides and long logs or poles.
What is a tepee?
True or false. North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are part of the southeast region.
True.
Homes that were built of wood and bark that were so large that entire clans could live together in one house.
What is a longhouse?
Native americans of the arctic region are called ____.
What is inuit?
This area is in the middle of the United States.
What is the Plains Region?
Because these tribes lived near the water, they were excellent ______ builders.
What are boats?
Desribe the clothing that people in the southwest would wear.
Lightweight clothing, shorts or shorter dresses, breech cloths, moccasins. Clothes had to keep the people cool.
Describe what it means to have a temperate climate, such as the plains region (and where we live).
They have many seasons, including hot summers and cold winters.
The southeast region had unique weather that gave them an advantage. Explain the weather and how it helped them.
The southwest is very humid and warm with lots of rain. This meant they could have longer growing seaons (or even two planting seasons) each year.
Describe wampum (belt). What is it made from? What did they look like? What was the meaning?
These were made from beads carved from quahog (calm) shells. The shells were usually bluish-purple and white. These belts had pictures that had geometric shapes, people/figures, trees, etc. They were used to make treaties/agreements, to communicate, as gifts/offerings, and decorations, etc.
The arctic region is close to the _____ pole on Earth.
What is the north?
Totem poles are a very special part of this region's culture.
What is the Northwest Region?
What are heraldic poles, house posts/poles, mortuary poles, memorial poles, welcome poles, shame poles.
True or false: In the southwest, native americans were able to grow lots of crops due to all of the sun and rain!
False. The southwest is very hot and dry.
Describe why the native americans in the plains lived in tepees.
Tepees were used in the plains because they were easy to put up and take down when moving to follow the buffalo.
Bonus: What is the word for people who move a lot?
Because these tribes lived close to the water, their main food source was this.
What is fish?
What is the woodlands?
The arctic tribes could not grow food. Why was it difficult, and what did they eat instead?
It was difficult because it was extremely cold, not much sun, and no soil (ice and snow instead). Instead, they mostly ate meat (i.e. seal, fish, whale, caribou).
In this region, houses must be built slightly off the ground to avoid flooding.
What is the Southeast Region?
What is the thunderbird?
These homes in the southwest were made with clay, mud, straw, and stone and became dry and hard in the hot sun.
What are adobes.
Villages in the plains positioned their tepees so the doors faced this direction. (Why?)
The doors faced east so they could begin each day with the rising sun.
In this region, 2 types of special homes (with very silly names) were built. Name and describe one of these homes.
Wattle and Daub - made by weaving wood, vines or river cane together and covering in mud/daub. These had a wood or thatched roof. These homes were more rounded.
Chickees - built a few feet of the ground on poles/stilts to help avoid flooding. Had thatched roofs made of palmetto leaves. These rooves were pitched/slanted.
Many tools were carved from _____. These tools or weapons included ____ and ______ (name two).
What is stone? What are axes, knives, arrowheads.
OR
What is bone? What are tools, toys, weapons, and sewing needles.
In the arctic, the inuits were masters of building ____ because they had to travel in the water to hunt.
What is a kayak?
Some tribes that live in this are in Alaska.
What is the Arctic Region?
True or false: the tribes of the northwest ate lots of clams, fish, and salmon.
True.
Describe what happened when the coyote rode the sun.
He was burned by the hot sun and is burned his fur, giving him some fur that was black, like the tip of his tail.
Native Americans hunted buffalo using this.
What is bow and arrow?
We listened to the story of Grandmother Turtle. What was the lesson in this legend?
They created land with the mud from under Grandmother Turtle's nails. Also, do not doubt someone just because they are older. ;)
The tribes of the northeast were excellent farmers. Name at least three of their main crops.
What are corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins.
Inuits sometimes live in homes made of ice and snow. These are known as ____.
What is an igloo?