NC American Indians
NC American Indians
NC American Indians
How life changed for American Indians after Europeans arrived
BONUS: (Counts 2x the points)
100

The reason why Cherokee tribes value spirituality

What is it forms an unbreakable bond among their people?

100

The type of shelters that the Iroquois lived in

What are longhouses?

100

The meaning behind the word "Catawba"

What is river people?

100

The way in which North Carolina Indians were able to live cooperatively with European settlers at first

What is trade?

100

Name ONE reason why learning about American Indians in North Carolina history is important

What is they lived on the land that is now North Carolina peacefully before Europeans arrived, OR What is they played a key part in the development of our state, OR what is they are key to our early history, OR what is there are still Native Americans living in NC today?

200

The "enforced walls" that Cherokees built around their homes/villages for protection

What are palisades? 

200

Where most Algonquian Indians in early NC lived

What is the coast?

200

The name that Waxhaw Indians were sometimes called

What is "Flatheads?"

200

Name the three ways that American Indians in North Carolina typically obtained food PRIOR to European arrivals

What is hunting, gathering, AND farming/agriculture?

200

Name one reason why European arrival in North Carolina was so drastic for Native Americans

What is they brought many diseases, OR what is they caused warfare, OR what is they murdered/displaced many tribes?

300

The Tuscarora tribe belonged to this confederacy

What is the Iroquois?

300

The religious being that Algonquian Indians believed in

What is Manitou?

300

The name of the Siouan Indians that lived in North Carolina

What is the Waccamaw?

300

Name ONE of the diseases that American Indians in NC faced after Europeans arrived

What is Smallpox, OR Malaria, OR Bubonic Plague, OR Typhus?

300

The religion that the Siouan Indians practiced

What is Shamanism?
400

The type of hairstyle that male Iroquois Indians wore 

What are mohawks?
400

The event in which Tuscarora tribes fought against white settlers

What is the Tuscarora War?

400

The portion of NC where Occaneechi Indians were forced to relocate to after being attacked by a white settler?

What is the Piedmont region?
400

The types of teachings that Native Americans offered Europeans AND the types of goods that Europeans offered in return

What are agricultural skills/techniques AND survival skills like fishing? AND what is manufactured goods (knives, guns, ammunition)?

400

The tribe that the Tutelo Indians belonged to

What is the Siouan?

500
The number of braids that Iroquois women wore before AND after marriage

What are 2 and 1?

500

The name of the North Carolina Indian tribe that had only around 200 people in its population

What is the Tutelo?

500

Name TWO of the three most common houses that American Indians in North Carolina lived in. 

What is long, rectangular-shaped houses (longhouses), OR dome-shaped houses (Wigwams), OR cone-shaped houses (Tepee)?

500

True or False: Europeans would purposely turn American Indian tribes against one another, resulting in many wars between tribes

What is TRUE?

500

The counties of what is now NC that Waxhaw Indians lived in?

What are Mecklenburg and Union counties?