Pacific Northwest
What food was most important to the Pacific Northwest tribes?
Answer: Salmon
What was the climate like in the Southwest?
Answer: Hot and dry, desert-like
What kind of shelter did Plains tribes use that was easy to move?
Answer: Teepees
What was the climate like in the Southwest?
Answer: Hot and dry, desert-like
What kind of homes did many Eastern Woodland tribes build?
Answer: Longhouses or wigwams
What kind of houses did they live in?
Answer: Large plank houses made of wood
What kind of homes did Pueblo tribes build?
Answer: Pueblos made of stone and adobe
What was the most important animal to Plains tribes?
Answer: The buffalo
Name one type of food the Southeast tribes grew.
Answer: Corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, or sunflowers
What are the “Three Sisters”?
Answer: Corn, beans, and squash
What is a totem pole?
Answer: A tall carved pole showing family stories or history
What type of clothing did they often wear in hot weather?
Answer: Light cotton clothing, often woven
How did the arrival of horses change life for Plains tribes?
Answer: Made it easier to hunt buffalo and travel
What kind of clothing did they wear in hot weather?
Answer: Lightweight clothing made from woven fibers or deerskin
What was one way the forests helped them?
Answer: Provided wood for houses, canoes, or tools
Why didn’t Pacific Northwest tribes need to farm as much?
Answer: The land and ocean provided plenty of fish, animals, and plants
How did the Southwest tribes get water for crops?
Answer: Irrigation systems
What did Plains tribes use buffalo hides for besides clothing?
Answer: Tipi covers, blankets, drums, and shields
How did the Southwest tribes get water for crops?
Answer: Irrigation systems
Why were clans and tribal groups important in the Eastern Woodlands?
Answer: They helped tribes work together for decisions, trade, and protection
What caused fights between settlers and Northwest tribes?
Answer: Settlers wanted control of land and resources, like salmon, which the tribes depended on.
How did settlers and later Americans cause problems for the tribes of the west?
Possible Answers: They tried to take land and force their religion on them, which led to revolts. Gave Native Americans small pox wiping out entire tribes withing days.
Conflict w/ Settlers: Why did Plains tribes have conflicts with settlers moving west?
Answer: Settlers hunted buffalo and took land, which made it hard for tribes to survive.
Conflict w/ settlers: Make an inference on how tribes felt when settlers started appearing in their area.
Answer: Tribes lost land, natural resources and were forced to move further west (Trail of Tears)
Conflict w/ Settlers: What happened when English settlers took over more land that tribes were living on?
Answer: There were often fights between settlers and Native American over land. Tribes often lost land and members of their tribe.