Native Americans

What were the homes of the Iroquois called?

• totems

• tipi

• longhouses

• hogans

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.

The word "nomadic" is used to describe what type of people?

• People who move irregularly to get food

• People who use semi-permanent shelters to get food

• People who stay in the same place to get food

• People who move frequently to get food.

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

• because

• instead

• in contrast

• yet

Anthropologists are those who study behaviors and cultures of past societies.

• True

• False

Anthropologists have a theory that Native Americans...

• arrived with Christopher Columbus

• never existed until 20 years ago

• migrated to North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The Iroquois made their home out of mud.

• true

• false

The Lakota people used tipis as their shelters on the Great Plains.

• true

• False

Hogans were homes build by the...

• Navajo people

• Lakota people

• Haida people

• Iroquois people

All types of shelters used by Native Americans were only made from wooden boards.

• true

• false