Native American Vocabulary

Materials that are found in nature and that can be used by people in many ways.

• settlement

• shelter

• natural resources

• transportation

The language, customs, ideas, and art of a particular group of people.

• tribe

• settlement

• nomadic

• culture

A place or structure that gives protection against weather or danger.

• settlement

• shelter

• tribe

• cultural regions

A group of families or people with ONE LEADER.

• nomadic

• shelter

• culture

• tribe

A group of people that has no fixed home, but wanders from place to place.

• nomadic

• settlement

• tribe

• culture

An AREA in which people with similar cultures live.

• settlement

• tribe

• cultural regions

• shelter

An AREA where a group of people or families live together.

• cultural regions

• shelter

• settlement

• culture

The act of carrying or moving something.

• transportation

• tribe

• nomadic

• shelter