Chapter 1 intro - The Native Americans

According to TCI, the first Americans migrated on foot from

• South America

• Canada

• Siberia

• Australia

The migrants who came to North America were nomads (a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock- www.dictionary.com ) Why did they travel from place to place?

• They followed the animals to hunt

• They were looking for a warmer climate

• They were leaving their tribes to start new tribes

There is conclusive evidence that the first Americans migrated on foot to North America

• true

• false

Native Americans learned to adapt to their environment

• using problem solving skills

• through teamwork in their tribes

• with the strength of the males

• using natural resources

According to TCI: over generations, groups of Native Americans developed their own ways of life and grouped into cultural

• religions

• regions

• preferences

• unity

According to TCI, Native Americans viewed themselves as

• part of nature

• supreme over all living things

• destined to take over the land

When Native Americans killed meat

• They had a religious ceremony before eating it.

• They did not waste any part of it.

• They shared it with the animals around them

According to TCI, The Native Americans believed that "there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things" called the Great Spirit or

• Master Spirit

• Wise One

• The Great God

• Wakan Tanka

How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the Ice Age? 

• sailed across a narrow strait
• traveled south from Canada
• Traveled across a land bridge
• sailed to Mexico and drifted north

How do historians learn how American Indians lives so long ago

• read their journals
• live in their shelters
• speak to the families
• study their artifacts