Native Americans

What was not one of the New York tribes?

• Iroquois

• Apache

• Algonquians

What is another name for the Indians who were the first people to live in New York?

• Native Indians

• Indian Americans

• Native Americans

Why didn't Native Americans live in one village permanently?

• the food supply ran out

• they wanted better weather

• the wanted new scenery

What did Native Americans do to protect their villages from their enemies and also from wild animals?

• lived near rivers

• had no walls or fences around their villages

• built stockades around their village

Who was honored by the Native American tribes?

• people who canoed

• people who farmed

• people who wrote

Native Americans from one village did what with other villages for furs, canoes, tobacco and dried fish?

• traded

• fought

• battled

What were the small homes that Algonquians lived in for one family called?

• log cabins

• roundhouses

• longhouses

What were the homes the Iroquois lived in for a number of families that were related to each other?

• log cabins

• roundhouses

• longhouses

How did the oldest men of the Native American villages pass down stories of their past from one generation to another?

• teaching in schools

• writing books

• telling stories

How many chiefs governed the League of the Five Nations?

• 500

• 50

• 5