Homes
Foods
Environment
Vocabulary
Fun Fact
100

Ice homes built by Native Americans in the Arctic

What are igloos?

100

main source of food for the Plains

buffalo

100

Region where it was sunny, dry and mild and along the Pacific coast

What is California?

100

a group of people's way of life

What is culture?

100

they lived in the Alaskan desert

Who are the Arctic (Inuit)

200

Portable homes made from buffalo skins used by the Plains peoples

What are tee-pees?

200

ate rodents, grasshoppers and snakes (region)

What is the Great Basin?

200
region where it was forested and seasonal

What is Eastern Woodlands (Northeast)?

200

Indigenous people adapted their culture based on this

What is the environment?

200

region that was quick to adapt to new ideas like the horse and gun

What are the Plains?

300

region where plank homes were built

Northwest Coast

300

region where fish, game and berries were food stuffs used by the wealthiest peoples

What is Northwest Coast?

300

Region where it was hot, dry and rocky but people farmed the desert

What is the southwest?

300

main source of food for many indigenous people, known as maize

What is corn?

300

Tall wood carvings used in the Northwest Coast to tell a story

Totem Pole

400

Communal homes used by people living in the Eastern Woodlands region

What are longhouses?

400

 region where people began herding elk and deer

What is the Plateau?

400

region where it was mild and rainy, with forests by the Pacific

What is the Northwest Coast

400

Tracing family line through the mother

What is matriarchal?

400

region where the "Civilized Tribes" lived

What is the Southeast?

500

Adobe dwellings built by people in the Southwest

What are pueblos?

500

hunted seal and fished

What is the Arctic?

500

Region where it was cool and dry in the mountains

What is the Plateau?

500

ceremonial gift-giving celebration practiced in the Northwest Coast

What is a potlatch?

500

The Iroquois and Algonquin peoples often formed these "leagues of friendship"

What are confederacies?