Native Americans of North America

What were the landforms and climate like in the Great Plains Region?

• Hot and dry

• Dry prairies, hills and plains

• Many forests, lakes, rivers and a lot of coastline

• Mild and dry

In what region of north America did the Native Americans build adobe houses?

• Great Plains

• Southwest Desert

• Eastern Woodlands

• West & Northwest

In what region of North America would you find the Cherokee Indian Tribe?

• Southwest Desert

• West & Northwest

• Eastern Woodland

• Great Plains

What is an artifact?

• A long period without rain.

• A method of bringing water to dry land through a series of ditches or pipes.

• A group of families that share the same ancestor.

• An object made by people in the past from which history can be learned.

A long-shaped home shared by several related Iroquois families is a ___________.

• pueblo

• long house

• wampum

• empire

To move from one location to another is to _________.

• irrigate

• league

• migrate

• compromise

What is a shaman?

• the use of science and tools to make or do something

• a native American doctor or spiritual healer

• more than what is needed

• a travois

What is a type of sled used by Native Americans to carry goods across the plains, made from two joined poles and dragged by a horse or dog

• lodge

• teepee

• coup stick

• travois

a special weapon used by a Lakota Sioux soldier, decorated to represent acts of bravery

• powwow

• coup stick

• kiva

• kachina

A narrow waterway between Alaska and Russia that connects the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean

• Mesa

• Land Bridge

• Bering Strait

• Tenochtitlan