Early People
What is glaciers?
The Maya developed a counting system that included this number?
What is zero?
Iroquois lived in shelters called this that could hold up to 50 people.
What are longhouses?
What was the name of the home of poles and buffalo skins that most Plain Indians
What is a tipi?
What are the three sister crops?
What are beans, squash, and corn?
What were the long spears with sharp sea shells the whale hunters used?
What are harpoons?
The movement of the early people from one place to another that probably took place very slowly.
What is migration?
The Maya recorded their writing system based on these picture symbols?
What are
hieroglyphics?
Some of the houses built by the Algonquian's were these round, bark-covered shelters?
What is a wigwam?
What part of the buffalo was used to make a brush?
What is the tounge?
Ladders were used to enter these houses in the Southwest?
What are pueblos?
What is to barter?
The first peoples to come to North America thousands of years ago. They are the what to our present day Native Americans?
What is ancestor?
Some historians call the Olmec the "________ culture".
What is mother?
What current sport is similar to the game early natives used to play by scooping up a ball in a small leather basket at the end of your stick?
What is Lacrosse?
What device was made of two poles tied together at one end and then fastened to a harness on a dog?
What is a travois?
What sun-dried bricks made from clay and straw was used in building homes in the Southwest?
What is adobe?
This celebration was meant to show wealth and divide property among the people and meant to give.
What is a potlatch?
What is the name of the "land bridge" that connected Asia and North America when the land dropped 350 feet?
What is Beringia?
The Maya ruled much of what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, and this northern country?
What is Belize?
Deganawida the Peacemaker and this Iroquois convinced the Five Nations to unite and work together as a group?
Who is Hiawatha?
Plains groups shared certain traditions and religious beliefs. Each group had a story that was told how they came to be. This tribe believed that they were made by a spirit called Old Man.
Who are the blackfoot?
The Navajo built these cone shaped shelters by covering a wooden frame with mud and the doors either faced the east or the west?
What is a hogan?
What tribe of the Arctic lived in the northern most part of Canada and Alaska?
Who are the Inuit?
People walked to North America when the land was exposed. They would walk from the continent of Asia, and leave this present day country before entering Alaska and working their way down North America.
What is Russia?
The earliest Mound Builders were this group whose civilization was located in the Ohio River valley.
Who are the Adena?
What five nations made up the League of Iroquois?
Who are the Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga?
The Sioux held a ceremony called the Sun Dance. they believed that it helped keep what strong?
For hundreds of years, Hop children have received these little wooden dolls, that were not toys but learning tools.
What are kachina dolls?
The Aleut used these one man canoes to hunt seals, walruses, whales?
What are kayaks?