Vocabulary
This was a device that helped women carry the baby safely.
What is cradleboard?
This is the season that your mother harvests the crops.
What is Fall?
Wampanoag people lived in Massachusetts. True or False.
What is True?
True or False. Wampanoag children bought their clothes from Wal-Mart.
What is False?
These are beads made from clam shells that the people gave to a sachem.
What is wampum?
A community of Native Americans is a __________?
What is tribe?
This is a home you have in the winter. It is longer and built to house your whole family during the cold months.
What is longhouse?
What are the three sisters? Hint - think crops that they grew together.
What is corn, beans, and squash?
Ghgggggggg Name some animals that the Native Americans used for clothing.
What are seals, black bears, raccoon, river otters, foxes, squirrels, beavers, muskrats, or wolves?
The leader of a tribe is called _________.
What is sachem?
Wampanoag man or woman who wore deer antlers.
What is medicine man or woman?
During the spring and summer your mother would collect grasses to weave into baskets. Older Children would guard the crops. What would your father be doing?
What is fishing, hunting animals, planting tobacco,
Name a chore that the Wampanoag men do in the spring and summer?
What is cut trees down, prepare the land for planting crops, planting tobacco?
How did mother sew clothes together?
What is with a bone needle and sinews?
The Wampanoag people celebrate with food, dance, crafts, and song. The people all dress up at this type of festival.
What is a powwow?
This is a strong Wampanoag warrior.
What is a pneece?
During the summer period your family would make a wetu. Name the three materials used to make this type of home.
What is a sampling, bark, and grasses?
Men cut down trees and then burn them so that they can remove the ash and hollow it out. What are they making? Hint - This will travel in the river.
What is mishoon?
Name one piece of clothing Wampanoag people might wear in the winter but not in the summer.
What is moccasin, blanket (jacket), breech cloth (pants)?
The Wampanoag always show respect for this.
What is the Earth?
Animals, nature, Earth.
Name a way that the Wampanoag tribe showed respect.
What is praying for animals when they killed them? What is dancing and singing when they were given a good harvest? What is offering visitors food when they came to their village? What is using as much of an animal that they could when they had to take its life?
This is the season you would pick strawberries.
Your family harvests the crops in the fall. Your father watches for signs of winter and then he digs and hole and leaves bags of dried food in the hole. Why does he do this?
What is - To prepare in case they need to eat food later and there is a shortage?
Why would you wear less clothing in the Summer or Springtime?
What is because it was warmer and you didn't want to kill animals for no reason?
This is how the Native Americans continue to honor their heritage.
What is have celebrations for the Earth, sing songs and dance, do tasks that their children long ago did, learn the stories of their people long ago.