Great Plains
What was the primary source of food Native Americans on the Great Plains?
Buffalo
What was a major food source for Native American tribes in California?
Acorns
What large animal was used as a good source of food for the Native American?
Whales
What was one of the devastating impacts of European settlers on Native American tribes?
Diseases
What was buffalo chips used for?
Fuel for Campfires
What tribes lived in the Great Plains?
Shoshone and Sioux
What is one of the tribes located in California?
The Native Americans used blubber from a whale for...
cooking, tanning hides, or covering wounds and bug bites.
Who was Ishi?
The last of the Yahi people
More than a million of them.
Where is the great plains located?
West of the Mississippi River, Middle of the Unites States.
What item played an essential role in the culture and lifestyle of nearly every California tribe?
Canoes
What tribe can be found in the Pacific Northwest?
Chinook
What was the journey called where thousands of Cherokee died while being forced to move west?
Trial of Tears
Fewer than a 1,000
What kind of landscape did the great plains have?
grassy prairies
What was used for arrowheads and knives?
Obsidian or volcanic glass
Pacific Northwest tribes was centered around large, extended families called...
clans
How did Native American tribes view land ownership?
They believed they were caretakers of the land.
The bones of the buffalo were used to make tools, ceremonial costumes and what else?
Childrens toys
Tribes in the Great Plains built domed houses called?
Wigwams
What is the name of a round one-room hut?
Tule
Tribes of the Pacific Northwest practiced what form of religion?
Totemism
What were the only boundaries before America was divided into colonies and states?
Natural features like rivers and mountains
What was sinew, the tough tissue conecting the muscle to the bone, used for?
Thread, bow strings and glue.