Early Societies in North America

Above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe

• kivas

• pueblos

• totems

• teepees

Underground ceremonial chambers at the center of each Anasazi community

• pueblos

• pueblos

• matrilineal

• kivas

Ancestor or animal spirits of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

• totems

• pueblos

• Iroquois League

• kivas

A society that traces ancestry through mothers.

• pueblos

• totems

• kivas

• matrilineal

cone-shaped shelters made of animal hides by the nomadic plains people

• teepees

• pueblos

• kivas

• totems

An alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America

• pueblos

• kivas

• Iroquois League

• totems