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100
What is the name of the region of the U.S where the SW Indians lived?
Four Corners
100
What does Hodenosaunee mean?
People of the longhouse
100
What provided the Plains Indians with most of the materials they needed to survive?
Buffalo
100
When the Northwest Coast Indians celebrate they sometimes have a what?
Potlatch
100
The design and use of tools, ideas, and methods to solve problems is called what?
Technology
200
What was the name in the dwellings which the Hopi lived?
Pueblos
200
What was the name of the houses that the Eastern Woodlands Indians built that were made out of saplings and covered with mats?
Wigwams
200
What did the Indians of the Plains harness dogs to in order to help move around and follow the animals they hunted?
Travois
200
What was an important event that allowed the Indians of the NW to collect lots of food quickly?
Salmon run
200
Dried meat is called what?
Jerky
300
What is the name of the spirits that the Hopi believe visit their villages and represent different aspects of nature?
Kachinas
300
What were the names of the two leaders of the Iroquois that helped to set up the Iroquois Confederacy?
Deganawida and Hiawatha
300
The arrival of what animal made life on the Great Plains much easier?
Horses
300
What was the name of the Native American group that were located along the NW Coast from Alaska further south?
Tlingit
300
The settling of a dispute by each side agreeing to give up something.
Compromise
400
What is the name of the non-Pueblo people who lived in peace with the Hopi?
Navajo
400
Who were the people that chose the village leaders?
Clan mothers
400
Native Americans on the Great Plains lived not only in teepees but also in what more permanent dwellings?
Lodges
400
What is the name of the objects that are put in front of a community house to decorate it?
Totem Pole
400
Flat or rolling land covered mainly with grass is called what?
Prairie
500
What was the type of agriculture that the Hopi used that allowed them to grow crops in an area without much rain?
Dry farming
500
What were the two main language groups of the Eastern Woodlands Indians?
Algonkian and Iroquoian
500
What was the way that the Lakota kept track of important events each year?
Winter Counts
500
The Northwest Coast Indians were just one group of Western Indians. What was one other area that the Native Americans lived in out West?
California, Great Basin, and Desert
500
A mountain or a hill with a flat top is called what?
Mesa