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Diet
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The Ice Age in Los Angeles, California
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Arrival of the Spanish
100
The most important food product from a tree to many Native People of California's Coastal Region.
What is an acorn?
100
A grass used for building homes.
What is tule?
100
A large, hairy elephant like mammal that lived in the Los Angeles area during the Ice Age.
What is a wooly mammoth?
100
They taught their daughters how to make baskets, gather seeds and berries, and cook meals.
Who are mothers?
100
Spanish explorers came from here before they landed in California.
What is Mexico?
200
Native People dug holes in the ground and placed sticks, dirt and grass over it to catch animals.
What is a trap?
200
This was used to make the frame of the home before in was covered with tule.
What are long sticks?
200
A large lion like mammal that lived in the Los Angeles area during the Ice Age.
What is saber tooth tiger.
200
They taught their sons how to track, trap and hunt for animals.
Who are fathers?
200
The Spanish explorers used these to trade with the Native People of California for food and baskets.
What are beads?
300
Sharpen at one end, this long, wooden tool was used by Native People for hunting.
What is a spear?
300
Before building their home, the Chumash would make this large shape on the ground.
What is a circle?
300
It's believed that Native People hunted and consumed woolly mammoths into extinction for this food product.
What is meat?
300
They taught the children the stories and traditions of their culture.
Who are the elders?
300
He was Spanish fier who built the first missions in California.
Who is Junípero Serra?
400
In Native Californian cultures, they were in charge of hunting for food.
Who are men?
400
In the mountain region, Native People would use this material to make planks for their homes.
What is wood?
400
The continent where the Native Americans came from during the Ice Age.
What is Asia?
400
Women removed the poison from acorns through this process.
What is leaching?
400
The Spanish named them after the mission of San Gabriel southeast of present day Pasadena.
Who are the Gabrielinos?
500
In Native Californian cultures, they were in charge of leaching and preparing the acorns for food.
Who are women?
500
Chumash homes had a hole in the center to vent it out.
What is smoke?
500
A natural, sticky trap where thousands of Ice Age mammals where trapped in and died.
What is a tar pit?
500
The way in which stories and legends were passed down from the adults and elders to children.
What is oral?
500
The name of a Gabrielino village that existed for hundreds of years near what today is downtown Los Angeles.
What is Yang-na?