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100
Native Americans formed groups called nations or ___________________.
What were tribes?
100
These are some of the contributions of the Native Americans to today's culture.
What are: lacrosse, canoes, names of places, loan words, etc.
100
Five different groups of Native Americans formed this government group around 1570.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
100
This is the land bridge over which the first people came to North America.
What is the Bering Strait?
100
The nickname for corn, beans, and squash.
What are the 3 Sisters?
200
This was the leader of each Iroquois clan.
Who was the clan mother?
200
These are two roles of Native American men and two roles of Native American women.
Men: hunting, fishing, making tools, tading, being the sachem, etc. Women: harvesting crops, cooking, weaving baskeds, creating pottery, choosing the sachem, teaching the girls, etc.
200
Iroquois men from each clan had this village meeting to make decisions.
What is council?
200
This person was responsible for curing the sick, speaking to the Manitous, and leading the people spiritually.
Who was a shaman?
200
Once the Ice Age ended, nomads lived in settled homes on _____________where they were able to grow crops.
What are farms?
300
Iroquois' homes were called ___________________, while Algonquians' homes were called _____________________.
What were longhouses (Iroquois) and wigwams (Algonquians)?
300
These were two roles of Native American children.
What was learning skills from their parents and helping with their chores, competing in games, carving dolls, etc.
300
Native Americans didn't have stores like we do today; therefore, they had to use these materials they found outside in order to survive.
What are natural resources?
300
The first Americans crossed into North America because they were following these animals.
What are the buffalo/wooly mammoths/mastodons?
300
This is another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
400
This was a member of your family who lived before you.
What is an ancestor?
400
These are the names of two of the Algonquian tribes.
What were the Lenni Lenape, Shinnecock, Mahican, and Montauk?
400
This Iroquois Confederacy's leaders were chosen by the people. This type of government is called a _________________.
What is democracy?
400
These are 3 ways that Native Americans used animals.
What are: furs - blankets & clothes; bones - tools/weapons; meat - food; etc.
400
Native Americans made these strings of polished beads, which they passed around at council to show that the speaker was truthful.
What were wampum?
500
This group is made up of families that have the same ancestors and live in the same home.
What is a longhouse family?
500
These are the names of two of the Iroquois tribes.
What are Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.
500
This is the reason the Iroquois Confederacy was so important and influential to our own government.
The Iroquois Confederacy was the first government based on decmocracy. The US government today is modeled upon the Iroquois democracy; we vote in order to choose our leaders.
500
These were the two men responsible for the ideals behind the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who were Hiawatha and Deganawida?
500
This is the reason why there were no longer nomads after the Ice Age.
Once all the ice melted, people no longer had to follow the animals; instead, they built settled homes on farms, where they were able to plant crops and have a steady food supply.