Lakota Souix
What did they rely on to survive?
What is buffalo?
What is a Why story?
A story that explains why some things are the way they are and why certain things happen
How did the horses come to America?
The Europeans brought them.
To what state does Oregon and Washington State belong?
What is the Pacific Northwest
What is the name of the act that forced an end to reservations all together?
What is the Dawes Act (The General Allotment Act of 1887)
What did they use Buffalo for?
food, clothing, tools,
What was the blue swift one about?
What is The first time a Cherokee indian sees a horse
Why were the horses so important for the indians on the plains?
They enable them to hunt faster and travel places faster.
What are steady rains and mild (warm) temperatures that enable plants to grow.
What was reason for getting rid of the reservations?
It forced the Native Americans to assimilate and own land to be like the Europeans. It essentially destroyed the cultural identity of the Native Americans.
What kind of houses did the Lakota Souix live in?
What are teepees?
What did the White Buffalo Calf woman teach the Native American tribes to do?
She taught them about the 7 religious ceremonies and how to pray.
The Europeans believed in different things than the indians. What did they want the Native Americans to do?
take on the european culture by:
changing religion
not having a tribe,land, or reservation with a community
What did the Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest do for food?
They were hunters and gathers. They fished, especially for salmon. If there was no salmon, they hunted big rainforest mammals and the women gathered roots, berries, and grains (wild rice).
What factors contributed to the Native Americans cultural identity?
language, clothing, food, religious practices, and how how the people feel deep down inside
What did the women gather for food?
What are nuts and berries?
Name the 2 important animals from the why stories we read?
horse, whale, buffalo, raven, thunderbird
How did disease affect the native americans?
They died from the diseases the Europeans brought to america because they didn't have any way to fight the germs.
How did the Makan kill whales in the water?
Sitting on the front edge of a canoe using a sharp harpoon
What was it about the cultural identity of the Native Americans that could not be easily erased?
land: It is the thing that made the tribe whole as they had intimate knowledge about the land so they could survive.
What does semi-nomadic mean
What is to travel from place to place?
Why stories begin with the great spirit or creator, who held the knowledge of all things. But, the great creator used ___________ to aid in his creation.
What are animals?
They indians could not live anywhere they wanted.What was the name of the community they were forced to live on?
What is a reservation
How was whale blubber used?
They used it as oil for cooking and covering wounds and bites.
What did the Indian New Deal of 1934 do?
it allowed them to exist as a separate nation within the United States which revived and renewed the core of their cultural identity.