Native Americans Of Arkansas

Question 1

What Native American tribe used stone and animal bones as tools?

Answer 1

Paleo

Question 2

What Native American tribe hunted mastodon and mammoths?

Answer 2

Paleo

Question 3

Who was the 1st Indians to migrate to Arkansas?

Answer 3

Paleo

Question 4

When did the Archaic live?

Answer 4

8,000-1,000BC

Question 5

What Native American tribe buried the dead with care in individual graves?

Answer 5

Archaic

Question 6

When did the woodland live?

Answer 6

1,000BC-1,000AD

Question 7

What Native American tribe was commonly known as burial mound builders?

Answer 7

Woodland

Question 8

What Native American tribe used religious ceremonies to bury dead?

Answer 8

Woodland

Question 9

What Native American tribe made their homes on ledges and cliffs, where rocky overhangs of cliff walls protected them from wind and rain?

Answer 9

Woodland

Question 10

When did the Mississippian live?

Answer 10

1,000-1,541AD

Question 11

What Native American tribe was commonly known as temple mound builders?

Answer 11

Mississippian

Question 12

What Native American tribe decorated pottery, mixed, crushed, and burned mussel shells with clay?

Answer 12

Mississippian

Question 13

What Native American tribe grew corn and used gruel as baby food?

Answer 13

Mississippian

Question 14

What Native American tribe had plaza and mounds surrounded by wooden and earthen walls and ditches like moats looked like a fort?

Answer 14

Mississippian

Question 15

What caused the decline of the Indians

Answer 15

• Disease
• Warfare
• Enslavement
• Desire for Indian land

Question 16

Describe why disease caused a decline of Indians?

Answer 16

Small Pox
Measles
Mumps
50-80% of Indians died in the first century of European contact.

Question 17

Describe why warfare caused a decline of Indians?

Answer 17

Battles between American Indian tribes caused a decline

The introduction of firearms (guns) made it worse

Question 18

Describe why enslavement caused a decline of Indians?

Answer 18

Some American Indians were kidnapped and forced to be slaves in rich agricultural lands to the east.

Question 19

Describe why a desire for Indian Land caused a decline of Indians?

Answer 19

After the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the U.S. government in 1803, many European settlers moved to the area.

Question 20

When did the Paleo live?

Answer 20

10,000-8,000BC

Question 21

Where did the Caddo live?

Answer 21

Southwest Arkansas

Red and Ouachita River Valleys

Question 22

Where did the Quapaw live?

Answer 22

Eastern Arkansas

Mississippi Alluvial Plain

Question 23

Where did the Osage live?

Answer 23

Northwestern Arkansas

Question 24

How did Osage, Quapaw, and Caddo men where there hair?

Answer 24

Scalp lock

Question 25

Describe Caddo Houses.

Answer 25

Tall, domed shaped grass houses

Question 26

Describe Quapaw Houses.

Answer 26

Rectangular House

Arranged around open area or plaza

Question 27

Describe Osage Houses.

Answer 27

Rectangular houses 100ft long

Question 28

What Native American group had sky people and earth people?

Answer 28

Osage

Question 29

Were the Quapaw rude or friendly?

Answer 29

Friendly

Question 30

Did not believe individuals should own land; everything was shared.

Answer 30

Quapaw

Question 31

Lived in Mississippi but hunted in Arkansas

Answer 31

Osage