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Vocabulary
Wabanaki Confederation
Pre-Historic Native Americans
Wabanaki Daily Life
100
A time before written records
What is pre-historic?
100
Stone used to make spear points
What is chert?
100
Micmac game played on ice with a ball and a stick
What is hockey?
100
made clay pots
Who are the Ceramic Period people?
100
Food planted and harvested by Wabanaki women
What are corn, beans, and squash?
200
Artifact or document created at the time of an event
What is a primary source?
200
Picture engravings in stone
What is a petroglyph?
200
Greatest enemy of the Wabanaki confederation?
Who are the Iroquois?
200
Used ochre, or iron ore, to make paint used to decorate objects.
Who are the Red Paint people?
200
Crop that Wabanaki men grew and harvested.
What is tobacco?
300
Something created later by a person who did not experience an event first hand
What is a secondary source?
300
A tool to help throw spears farther and faster.
What is an atlatl?
300
Ideal site for a Wabanaki inland village
What is near river rapids?
300
Emerged during the Ice Age between Asia and North America
What is the land bridge?
300
Learned to hunt, fish, make canoes
What did Wabanaki boys learn to do?
400
Italian explorer who thought he had reached islands off the coast of India, so he called the native people, "Indians"
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
small shells or beads used to tell stories, send messages, for trade and later as money
What is wampum?
400
Meaning of the word, "Wabanaki"
What is "people of the dawn"
400
Traveled long distances to trade for stone used to make spear points
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
400
Morning ritual of Wabanaki
What is pray to the Great Spirit, Manitou?
500
Two cultures on different continents that believed in life after death
Who are the Red Paint people and the Ancient Egyptians?
500
a trash or garbage dump left by ancient Native Americans where many artifacts have been found.
What is a shell midden?
500
The five tribes that joined to create the Wabanaki Confederation.
What are the Micmac, Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Maliseet?
500
Hunters of the woodland animals that appeared in Maine as the climate began to warm.
What are the Archaic Indians?
500
Animal symbol each tribe claimed for itself
What is a totem?