Native American Study Guide

What is the significance of the Caddo Indians?

• They were the most advanced tribe with farming, society and permanant housing
• They were nomadic fishermen who invented canoes
• They were fierce warriors who defended their land
• They fled the Spaniards and created a new home in West Texas

How did early natives get to America?

• The Archaic Bridge
• The Siberian Strait
• The Beringia Land Bridge
• The Alaskan Channel

Why do historians divide the past into eras?

• To organize blocks of time with similar characteristics
• To organize blocks of time with different characteristics
• To understand human-environment interaction
• To predict cultural diffusion patterns

What is adobe made out of?

• Clay
• Mud mixed with straw and dried in the sun.
• Cement and rebar
• Bugs and Spit

Which Native Americans lived in Adobe homes made from clay bricks

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern

Which Native Americans were expert horseman

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern

Comanches and Apaches were located in

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern

Ate fish/shellfish, sea plants, hunted small game

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern

Caddos and Wichitas were located in

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern

Karankawas and Coahuiltecans were located in the

• Gulf Coast
• Plains
• Pueblo
• Southeastern