Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Tribes
Tribes
Tribes
100
What is a type of corn?
Maize
100
What is a mixture of clay and straw, used to make bricks?
Adobe
100
What tribe is believed to be first American Indians?
Paleo Indian
100
What crops make up the three sisters?
Corn, beans, squash
100
What tribe was known as the Principal People?
Cherokee
200
What is a large animal with thick fur and a hump on its back?
Buffalo
200
Hide
What is the skin of an animal?
200
What piece of land did the Native Americans cross to enter North America?
Bering Strait
200
The Choctaw were a major tribe of what state?
Mississippi
200
Half of all Native Americans living in Alabama were part of the _______________ tribe.
Creek
300
What is an instrument that is played with hands or sticks?
Drum
300
What is a kind of Native American home made of stones or adobe, sometimes several stories high?
Pueblo
300
Who were known as the "cave dwellers"?
Archaic
300
What tribe was located in Northwest Alabama and known for their "Rebel Yell"?
Chickasaw
300
What is another name for the Choctaw tribe?
Longhairs and Flatheads
400
What is a kind of Native American home, often with walls of dried mud?
Hogan
400
What are beads used for trading?
Wampum
400
What tribe began the first permanent homes and towns?
Woodland
400
The Creeks real name is ______________.
Muskogee
400
The word Alabama comes from what tribe?
Choctaw
500
What is a family of Native Americans called?
Lodge
500
What is a kind of Native American home made by laying hides or bark over a wooden frame?
Wigwam
500
The Mississipian is also called the __________________.
Mound Builders
500
Which tribe was the largest in Alabama?
Creek
500
Some Native Americans build mounds that were used for what?
temples, homes, religious ceremonies