Vocabulary
Areas of land set aside for Native Americans
What are reservations?
Many Lenape were killed by the disease___________.
What is small pox?
Adult males would tattoo their tribal clan on their chest.
What is the Lenape?
Who is General George Custer?
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
What are wigwams?
This tribe made their own tools and weapons including tomahawks, spears, bows, and hatchets.
What is Miami?
The women of this tribe were known for their intricate art and detailed beadwork on belts and clothing.
What is Shawnee Indians?
Governor who defeated Tenskwatawa at the Battle of Tippecanoe and later used this feat to run for President.
Who is Governor William Henry Harrison?
This law included a Bill of Rights, outlawed slavery, and provided a way to govern the lands of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Shawnee Women wore these like backpacks with baby wrapped and tied to a board. It could be set on the ground or worn on one's back.
What is a cradleboard?
This tribe collected sap from Maple trees to create maple syrup.
What is Potawatomi?
South Dakota's Black Hills was promised to this group of Native Americans.
What is Lakota?
Shawnee leader who attempted to unite the Native American tribes into an Indian Nation, but was killed in the Battle of Thames.
Who is Tecumseh?
This promised land in South Dakota's Black Hills to the Lakota, but was later broken when gold was discovered.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
These boats measured between ten to twenty four feet in length. They could carry up to fifty people and were often used for wars. They had very detailed outsides and very durable, or strong, insides made by hand and used materials from the surrounding forests.
What is a birchbark canoe?
Lenape women dug holes and placed food in the ground for two reasons.
What is it kept the food safe from bugs or hungry animals and it kept it at the right temperature?
This tribe settled in Kekionga which was located near present day Fort Wayne, IN.
What is Miami?
______ was sent by Thomas Jefferson to lead an expedition to explore land west of the Mississippi River. He asked __________________ to help lead the Corps of Discovery.
What is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Signed in 1975, this treaty gave most of Ohio to the United States government.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
A boat created next to the river by using one tall heavy tree
What is a dugout canoe?
Shawnee Indians did not stay in one place very long for three reasons.
What are to avoid conflicts with other tribes, to follow animals, and to find food?
The name _________ means “fire keeper” and refers to their participation in the Council of the Three Fires with the Ojibwa and Odawa tribes.
What is Potawatomi?
This Miami leader felt that his people and their way of life was being threatened. He and his warriors fought many battles against the settlers trying to keep them off of the tribe’s land. Eventually he signed the Treaty of Greenville and encouraged the Miami tribes to be peaceful.
Who is Chief Little Turtle or Michikinikwa.
Formally ended the American Revolution and gave lands west of the Appalachians to the United States and Britain
What is the Treaty of Paris?