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Mound Builders
The First Native Americans
Native American Culture
NC Native Americans
Miscellaneous
100
buried artifacts, including pottery, and bones of Native Americans
What was found in many conical mounds?
100
Most historians believe that Native Americans came to North America from what country?
What is Asia
100
A people's way of life, including the kinds of tools they make, the food they eat, and the language they speak.
What is culture.
100
Native Americans in North Carolina were considered part of the ______________ region or era.
What is Eastern Woodlands?
100
Almost all of the tribes believed that ALL of _________ had a spirit.
What is nature
200
It was flat for a temple or maybe for residential purposes or also sometimes just a place for ceremonies or meetings
What is purpose of a platform mound?
200
The first Native Americans arrived in North American how many years ago?
What is 12,000 (or 20,000)
200
Atlatl (spear throwing tool) with spear or spears
What was hunting equipment used by Archaic peoples
200
Since written records do not exist, we know about early North Carolinians because of _____ ______, stories passed down from generation to generation.
What is oral histories
200
Native Americans in the Outer Banks of North Carolina used ___ _______ for canoes.
What is cypress trees because they are rot-resistant
300
South and West of North Carolina, although Town Creek Mound is in North Carolina
Where were most mounds?
300
They were nomads hunting large mammals, such as bison and mammoths and followed them to America.
What is the reason the first Americans came to America?
300
In the Pacific Northwest, this was a "prize catch"
What is a whale because it provided extra food and oil for trade.
300
An estimated 35,000 lived and hunted in North Carolina by 1492.
What is Native Americans
300
The people of the Desert Southwest are famous for building _______ villages or "________" meaning "towns."
What is adobe and pueblos on top of mesas, plateaus that soared high above the desert floor.
400
Although some were built during the Archaic Period, most were built during the Woodland Mississippian period.
When were the mounds built?
400
They walked across the Bering Land Bridge
How did the first Americans arrive and where did they cross?
400
They used buffalo skins for clothing, tipis and used the bones for sewing needles and other things.
Who are the Plains Indians?
400
Scientists believe that at least 28 different ones lived in North Carolina at one time or another.
What is tribes
400
Native Americans used slash and burn
How did they clear forests?
500
It was in the shape of an animal, a symbol or another figure and thought to be for religious ceremonies.
What is an Effigy Mound?
500
What happened to the land bridge the first Native Americans used?
What is it disappeared under rising water.
500
It was a method of teaching children to respect all life and also explained how things came to be the way they are. They were passed on orally.
What is a legend?
500
All tribes were broken into clans with these over them.
What is chiefs?
500
No one could OWN this, only occupy and cultivate it.
What is land