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Life
Spring/Summer
Fall/Winter
100

Spring/Summer Home

What is a WETU

100

Preparing food so it will last a long time without spoiling

What is preserve

100

Tools are made from these items

What are bones, shells and rocks 

100

Where you live in Summer/Spring

What is near the seashore 

100

The Longhouse is used mostly for this

What is sleeping

200

A Tribe

What is a community of families or groups of related families


200

A hollowed out tree trunk used as a boat

What is a mishoon

200

Name some animals were hunted for their fur

What are deer, bears, beavers and raccoons

200

Name two things from the ocean that the Wampanoag ate

What are clams, herring, eels and lobsters

200

These members harvest or gather the crops 

Who are the women in the tribe

300
Fall/Winter home

What is a Longhouse 

300

A herring

What is a small fish 

300

Three ways the Wampanoag got food 

What are the hunting, fishing and gathering 

300

Corn, beans and squash are known as

What are the Three Sisters
300

The family moves here in the fall/winter

What is away from the shore...into the forest 

400

A story that explains how something came to be 

What is a legend

400

Small, bendable branches used in making a wetu

What are saplings

400

Name three other tribes that lived in Massachusetts besides the Wampanoag

Who are the Mohegan, Pocumtuck, Nipmuck, Pennacook, Massachusett, Narragansett 
400
Definition of a sugar bush

What is an area with a lot of maple trees 

400

Families sat around the fire and told these stories

What are legends

500
Definition of native

What is being born in a place or coming naturally from a place 

500

"People of the Dawn" or "people of the first light" 

Who are the Wampanoag

500

Language spoken by the Wampanoag

What is Algonquian

500

These members got the ground ready for planting.  

Who are the men in the tribe

500
The years that the Wampanoag lived

What are the 1600's