American Indians Flashcards
These Indians lived in present-day northern Canada and Alaska.
Inuit
These resources are from people working to produce goods and services such as hunting, fishing, cooking and making clothes.
Human Resources
These indians depended on roaming herds of caribou, seals, fish and migrating birds for their survival.
Inuit
These Indians made their homes out of ice and snow also known as igloos.
Inuit
These Indians lived along the Pacific Northwest Coast in the Coastal Range Region of North America.
Kwakiutl
These resources are from using items, such as fish, animals, crops and forests, that come directly from nature.
Natural Resources
The main source of food for these Indians was fish and seals from the rivers, streams and ocean in the Coastal Range Region.
Kwakiutl
The land in this area is covered by vast forests of giant cedar trees and abundant rivers, streams and springs.
Coastal Range Region
These Indians lived in longhouses, also known as plank houses, constructed from cedar wood.
Kwakiutl
These Indians lived in the Great Plains Region of North America. This region has hot summers and long, cold winters with very little rainfall.
Lakota
These Indians hunted buffalo and antelope, grew crops such as maize, beans and pumpkins, and gathered wild berries for food.
Lakota
These Indians had teepees for homes made of buffalo skins held up by wooden poles or domes shape lodges covered by earth or grass.
Lakota
This region has hot summers and long, cold winters with very little rainfall. The land is covered by huge areas of dry grasslands, rolling hills and flowing streams.
Great Plains Region
These Indians built homes out of a mixture of sun-dried earth and straw called adobe.
Pueblo
These Indians lived in the northeastern part of North America called the Eastern Woodland.
Iroquois
These resources are used to produce other goods and services.
Capital Resources
This northeastern region of North America is covered by thick forests, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes and streams. It has cold winters with snow and warm summers with plenty of rain.
Eastern Woodland.
These Indians lived mainly in the southern Basin region of North America, in the present-day states of New Mexico and Arizona.
Pueblo
These Indians lived in villages located on the flat tops of mesas, which were elevated areas of land with a flat top, or in caves located on the steep side of canyon walls.
Pueblo
Most American Indians met their basic food needs by this method:
Using resources in the environment
