Native Peoples of Chile

What aspect best describes a sedentary people?

• They lived in a specific place.

• They moved from one place to another in search of food.

• They wore clothes made out of animal skin.

What element in the image indicates that this native people lived in the Southern Zone in Chile?

• They are hunting with bows and arrows.

• There are rivers and mountains.

• They have a shelter.

Which native peoples lived in the Southern Zone of Chile?

• Chango – Selk’nam.

• Kawésqar – Yagán.

• Picunche – Mapuche.

Which native people lived on the coast?

• Chango

• Diaguita

• Pehuenche

What aspect of the Kawésqar in this image indicates that they were nomadic?

• They wore clothes made of fur.

• They had a campfire to keep themselves warm.

• They traveled by canoe gathering shellfish.

How did agriculture contribute to sedentary peoples?

• They could sell their products to buy houses and live permanently in the same place.

• They lived by the products they grew, so they did not need to go to other places searching for food.

• They could feed many people with the products they grew, and that way they could live all together.

The Atacemeño used to live in highland oases in what are now the countries of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. They were farmers and shepherds. They grew their food on staggered terraces in order to make the best use possible of their limited water supply.

Which statement is true?

• The Atacameños grew food on terraces in order to make the best use of space.

• The Atacameño were a nomadic people of the altiplano.

• The Atacameños grew food on terraces in order to make the best use of their limited water supply.

Where did the Atacameños live?

• In the Northern Zone.

• In Central Chile

• In the Southern Zone

Look at the image related to the Mapuche. Which statement is correct according to the image?

• They grew potatoes and corn and had permanent houses.

• They were sedentary and their houses were made of stone and straw

• They lived in communities and gathered wild fruit.

This native people still celebrates the

Machitún, a ceremony to heal sick people; and the Nguillatún, a ceremony to improve the harvest or to request rain. The ceremony requires the use of instruments such as cultruns and sticks from the sacred cinnamon tree.

What current native people do these traditions belong to?

• Rapa Nui.

• Mapuche.

• Aymara.