American Indians & Their Lands

A natural environment includes

• factories

• culture

• plants

• stories

Many American Indian groups tell origin stories to

• teach their children the arts of warfare

• predict how the world will end.

• explain how Earth and its people came to be.

• take the place of their native language.

According to the Hopis, where did people live at first?

• inside the earth

• in a dense forest

• in the sky

• across the sea

As they migrated, the first Americans went in search of big game such as

• walruses

• caribou

• bears

• whales

As they migrated, early American Indians had to adapt by

• leaving old tools behind.

• appointing new chiefs to lead them.

• using what was around them in nature.

• carrying all of their food with them.

Most early American Indians settled in places that had

• huge sheets of ice.

• lots of rain and snow.

• rich natural resources.

• scarce resources.

Which of these were the Inuits least likely to make in their environment?

• a winter count on buffalo hide

• snow goggles made from bone

• a float constructed from sealskin

• an igloo built out of ice and snow

Scientists believed the early people first ______________________ a thousands of years ago.

• adapted

• migrated

• pictograph

• environments

Early people settled in different __________________.

• kivas

• adaptations

• origin stories

• environments

American Indians tell their _____________________, a tale that explains where they came from.

• adaptation

• origin story

• pictograph

• kiva