Native American Vocabulary

Native American who settled in the Midwest/southeast of North America

• mound builders

• cliff dwellers

• Adobe

• Anasazi

Native Americans who built houses in the wall of canyons and under the overhangs of caves in cliffs. Present day Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah

• mound builders

• cliff dwellers

• mesas

• Anasazi

a person's way of life

• culture

• artifact

• adobe

• mesas

items left behind by early humans

• artifacts

• culture

• mound builders

• cliff dwellers

Spanish for village homes built out of adobe bricks

• adobe

• mesas

• pueblo

• mesas

a building material made of earth (dirt) and straw

• mesas

• pueblo

• anasazi

• adobe

Navaho word for "ancient one"

• mound builder

• cliff dweller

• mesas

• anasazi

an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs

• mesas

• adobe

• pueblo

• artifact