Vocab 1
The Ancestral Pueblo were this kind of people
What are cliff dwellers?
A special Inuit canoe made from animal hide
This is the land bridge that connected Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
The people who lived in Beringia were this
What are hunter-gatherers?
The Creek’s ancestors were these people
Who were the Mound Builders?
The Haudenosaunee lived in this
What are longhouses?
This is a period in Earth's history when huge sheets of ice covered large parts of Earth's surface.
What is an Ice Age?
The first Native people of the Americas to raise crops lived in this land
What is Mexico?
Because they were farmers, the Mound Builders lived this kind of lifestyle
What is staying in one place?
The Oneida were part of this.
What was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
The three sisters were these
What are Haudenosaunee crops? (corn, beans, squash)
This is the top layer of Earth's surface where plants grow.
What is soil?
The Seminole Nation lives in this area
What is Florida?
The population of the Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought this
What are germs?
The seven sides of a Cherokee council house represented this
What is the group's clans?
This is a large prehistoric elephant-like animal covered with hair.
What is a mammoth?
The saying “burying the hatchet” means this
What is sitting down and talking calmly?
The earliest Americans came from this continent.
What is Asia?
Sequoyah wrote this
What is a set of symbols for writing Cherokee?
These are a Pueblo people who live in villages on the high mesas.
Hopi
The saying “smoking the peace pipe” means this
What is "to make peace?"
What is a mastodon?
The Ancestral Pueblo lived in an area that is now called this
What is the Southeast?
These are soft, colorful lights that appear in the sky in northern lands, caused by the reflection of the sunlight.
What are northern lights?
The Mohawk and the Seneca were part of the
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?