Native American Tribe Study Guide

Native American Tribe Study Guide

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Multiple Choice

Why is Chief Little Turtle a very well known Miami Native American?

• He found the disease killed many Lenape.

• He was a war chief who fought American Settlers who were taking the Native American's land.

• He created the dugout canoe.

• He would have to move off of their land.

Multiple Choice

What did the Treaty of Greenville mean for the Miami Tribe?

• They would have to move off of their land.

• It was the disease killed many Lenape.

• They made tools that helped make their daily lives easier.

• It allowed for weapons to be made.

Multiple Choice

What was Kekionga (which is present day Fort Wayne) to the Miami Tribe?

• A dugout canoe.

• Their capital city.

• Where they were forced off of their land.

• Where the women worked.

Multiple Choice

What is a wigwam?

• A dome shaped house made out of young saplings and bark.

• A dugout canoe.

• A weapon.

• A wig for the wam.

Check out that wigwam!

Multiple Choice

What is a tomahawk?

• It was the disease killed many Lenape.

• Where the canoe was made.

• A weapon.

• What the natives lived in.

Multiple Choice

What did Shawnee use longhouses for?

• Growing crops, making pottery and clothes.

• To protect themselves from enemies.

• Lenape women.

• Ceremonies, houses, meeting houses.

Check out that longhouses!

Multiple Choice

What jobs did Shawnee women do for their tribe?

• Making weapons.

• Moving from land to land.

• Growing crops, making pottery and clothes.

• Chopping down trees.

Multiple Choice

How are the Shawnee related or connected to Oklahoma?

• They were forced off of their land.

• Dugout canoes stay there.

• Today there are 3 Shawnee Tribes living in Oklahoma.

• The Shawnee named Oklahoma.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Potawatomi Tribe come to Indiana?

• Indiana is way better.

• Traveling by canoes moved them there.

• They were forced off of their land.

• Dugout canoes came from there.

Multiple Choice

Who did the Potawatomi have an alliance with?

• The British Americans.

• The woman from other tribes.

• The Tipacanoe tribe.

• The Ojibwa and the Odawa tribes.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Potawatomi need to have an alliance with other tribes?

• To protect themselves from enemies.

• To receive more food from crops.

• To travel farther together.

• They would have to move off of their land.

Multiple Choice

What do we know about the Potawatomi and making maple syrup?

• It taste best on pancakes.

• The syrup sold very well to local tribes.

• Men did not participate in making the syrup; the most experience women had a lot of experience and knew what to do; making maple syrup was a job for the women.

• Men made the syrup for the women to eat as a treat.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Potawatomi make tools?

• They made tools to sell.

• To protect themselves from Lenape.

• They were forced off of their land, tools helped them move.

• They made tools that helped make their daily lives easier.

Multiple Choice

What is made by chopping down a large tree and digging out the inside?

• Tree bark canoe.

• Dugin canoe.

• Dugout canoe.

• Boats.

Check out the dugout canoe.

Multiple Choice

What could be built to hold up to 50 people?

• Birch bark canoe.

• A large boat.

• Brick bark canoe.

• A home.

Check out the birch bark canoe, notice it holds a lot more people!

Multiple Choice

How are smallpox and the Lenape related?

• Smallpox was the name of their chest tattoos.

• It was the disease that killed many Lenape.

• They were forced off of their land if they didn't have smallpox.

• They got smallpox from their chicken coops.

Multiple Choice

How could people in the Lenape tribe tell which clan a man was from?

• The length of their hair.

• Their chest tattoo.

• The weapons they carried.

• Their last name told what clan they were in.

Multiple Choice

What do we know about the women of the Lenape tribe?

• Lenape woman did nothing for the tribe.

• Lenape women were important members of the tribe.

• The Lenape tribe didn't allow women.

• Lenape women controlled the tribe.

Multiple Choice

Why did a Lenape village need to move locations every ten years?

• They used up all their resources.

• Warriors moved into the location.

• The women wanted a new place to work.

• For fun.

Multiple Choice

What did the Lenape tribe need to consider when preparing food for the winter?

• They needed to plant enough seeds to grow food for their current and future food needs; only a certain amount of food could be eaten after it was harvested. The rest needed to be saved; if a crop failed to grow, there would be less food to save for winter.

• How much snow they would receive that winter.

• They really did not care about the snow, warriors and tribes didn't worry about snow or the winter.

• Should they stay or move.

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