Native American Vocabulary and Concepts

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Hogan

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a dome-shaped Navajo shelter made of logs and poles covered with mud

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Kiva

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Special rooms set aside for religious events in Pueblo culture

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Longhouse

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a rectangular shelter built by the Iroquois

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Igloo

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a sod or snow house built by the nomadic Inuits

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Pueblo

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an American Indian village of the Southwest made of stone and adobe apartment buildings built close together and often located on the side of a mountain

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Wattle and Daub

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a style of construction where the Cherokees built huts made of sticks or river cane plastered with mud

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Wampam

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Iroquois beads made from shells that were used for money, belts, and trade

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Culture

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the customs, beliefs, and creative arts of a group of people

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Creation Mandate

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the command given by God for man to fill the earth and rule over it

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Shamanism

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A Native American belief where they try to communicate with the spirits.