Native Americans Flashcards
What are people who move from place to place without permanent homes called?
Nomads
What word means a time before history was written down by people.
prehistoric
Long ago, this is the area where sea levels dropped and there was a land bridge between Asia and North America.
Beringia
What was the area between two enormous glaciers that these Native Americans migrated between called?
Ice Free Corridor
“These prehistoric people looked even more to the oceans, lakes, and rivers for sustenance…” What is sustenance?
food
What allowed many of these native tribes to settle in one place and quit the nomadic life?
They learned to farm.
Tribes from the Great Plains didn’t have very many trees so they made their homes out of _________________.
soil
Which tribe in the Southwest used clay bricks and stones to build their dwellings?
Pueblo
In arctic regions, the Inuit hunted whales and built ____________ to live in?
igloos
These native tribes worshipped a variety of nature gods. They were _______________.
polytheists
Many native people came to live in groups called ________________.
tribes
Native tribes were now dispersed all across North America. What does dispersed mean?
spread out
Why did Christopher Columbus call the Native Americans Indians?
He thought they were in the West Indies.
Why was there an abundance of food it the Mississippi River Valley?
It had rich soil.
What tribe of Native Americans built houses and buildings on mounds?
Mound Builders
What is a sun dried brick made of clay that the Pueblo used to make their houses?
adobe
What word means not having enough rainfall to grow crops?
arid
What were the name of the homes that the Ancient Pueblo built on the sides of mountains?
cliff dwellings
What did the Ancestral Pueblos use their roofs for?
To dry out crops
The word Pueblos is the Spanish word for ____________.
towns
What are the underground rooms of the Pueblo houses called?
kivas
What are the ancestral spirits in the Hopi religion called?
Kachinas
What two tribes of Pueblo Indians came as a result of the Ancestral Pueblo?
The Hopi and Zuni
What does the word Hopi mean?
peaceful and wise
What was the most important crop for the Hopi?
corn
The Hopi would plant their crops at the bottom of ________________.
mesas
What figurative language means to give someone the silent treatment?
Cold Shoulder
What is the Iroquois house made of wood called?
longhouse
Who are the Iroquois who they thought had access to spirits, could tell the future, and control spirits?
shamans
Which Native American Tribe settled on the land surrounding the Mississippi River?
Eastern Woodland
What do some scientists believe the wars of the Eastern Woodland Indians were caused by?
A mini-ice age
Why would a mini-ice age cause a war?
Food is scarce in an ice age..
What is probably the reason that Native tribes moved from the north to the south?
The weather was better.
What tribe migrated into present-day Florida?
Seminole
Why is it thought that the Cherokee were distant relatives of the Iroquois?
They had similar languages.
What was the name of the harvest festival that the Cherokee celebrated at the end of growing season?
Green Festival
What ball game did the Cherokee play?
anetsa
