Definitions
A person who moves often in search of food.
What is a nomad?
The first people to live in North America did this to get food.
What is hunting and gathering?
A system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods.
What is economy?
This group of society was thought to have a special connection to the spiritual world.
Who are children?
The Inuits lived here.
What is the far north?
A system for bringing water to dry field.
What is irrigation?
This is how people spread across North America.
What is following animal herds across the continent?
This is one thing that the Native American tribes grew.
Answers will vary.
Making clothing and other household goods was a role of this group of people.
Who are women?
Lived in the Southwest Region.
Who are the Pueblo people?
A set of beliefs and way of life that are special to a
certain group.
What is culture?
Most experts think this is how the first people came to North America.
What is walking across a land bridge from Asia to North America?
The Maya people charted the sun, moon, and stars to do this.
What is create a very accurate calendar.
A religious leader who had special knowledge and skills.
Lived in Southern Mexico.
Who are the Maya People?
To change in order to survive the conditions faced.
What is adapt?
This allowed people to stay in one place and build permanent structures.
What is agriculture?
The Inuits made these to better fish and travel in their environment.
They made decisions. Their members were usually the society’s leaders.
What is a council?
Lived in the Southeast region.
Who are the Powhatans?
A group whose member nations share the same goals.
What is a League?
This is an example of how farming changed native American life.
In California, Native Americans burned shrubs so that grasses would grow.
What is an example of changing the environment to improve their lives?
Native American religion is notable because they thought that these had spirits.
What are animal and earth spirits?
These people lived in the Northern Woodlands.
Who are the Iroquois?