Readworks-Native American Homes

What were the homes of the Iroquois called?

• totems

• tipis

• longhouses

• Hogans

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What does the passage list?

• different homes built by Native American tribes in different regions of America

• different beliefs of Native American tribes throughout America

• different lifestyles of Native American tribes throughout America

• different ways Native Americans hunted for food throughout America

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The Pueblo Indians and the ancestors of present-day Navajos endured the harsh landscape of the American Southwest in two very different ways.

Which information from the passage supports this statement?

• Circular structures built by the Pueblo Indians were generally freestanding, while rectangular structures were attached on different sides.

• The Pueblo Indians built brick and stone structures. The Navajo Indians built ranches made with whatever materials were available.

• Navajo homesteads might have inspired white settlers to build ranches of their own on the western frontier.

• Pueblo homes further to the east were built using mostly adobe clay.

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How could “tipis” have helped Native Americans secure food on the Great Plains?

• Tipis provided a stable, long-term shelter used to gather food on the Great Plains.

• Tipis provided a flexible shelter that allowed Native Americans to follow animals they hunted across the Great Plains.

• Tipis provided a flexible shelter that allowed Native Americans to plant crops across the Great Plains.

• Tipis provided a place for women and children to stay while the men hunted for food across the Great Plains.

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What is the main idea of this passage?

• It is important to remember that Native Americans had established customs, beliefs, traditions, and general ways of living well before European influences began to spread across the continent.

• Different Native American tribes used different types of shelter to survive depending on their location, lifestyle, and available resources.

• The nomadic lifestyle of Native Americans on the Great Plains encouraged the use of shelters that could be put up and taken down very quickly.

• Most anthropologists who study pre-Columbian homes believe that the ancestors of modern Native American peoples migrated from Asia, across the Bering Strait.

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“The nomadic lifestyle of Native Americans on the Great Plains encouraged the use of shelters that could be put up and taken down very quickly. Animals hides stretched over tent poles arranged in a cone, known today as a tipi (meaning “to dwell” in the Lakota language), was the shelter of choice for hunting societies that required a greater range of mobility.”

As used in the passage, the word “nomadic” is used to describe what type of people?

• people who stay in the same place to get food

• people who move frequently to get food

• people who use semi-permanent shelters to get food

• people who move irregularly to get food

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Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

The Native Americans on the Great Plains moved easily _______ of the flexible shelter the tipis provided them.

• yet

• in contrast

• Instead

• because

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