Native American History

What are aboveground houses made of a heavy clay (adobe) called

• tee pees

• pueblos

• totems

What are cone-shaped shelters made of animal hides by the nomadic plains people called?

• pueblos

• tee pees

• kivas

What are underground ceremonial chambers at the center of each Anasazi community?

• kivas

• pueblos

• totems

What are ancestor or animal spirits of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest called?

• tee pees

• kivas

• totems

Tracing a society’s ancestry through mothers is called...

• paternalism

• native history

• matrilineal

An alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America is called...

• Iroquois League

• Sioux Nation

• Anasazi Tribe

Which tribe often built complex houses on cliff walls to defend against attacks.

• Apache

• Anasazi

• Navaho

About how many different languages were spoken by the Native American tribes in North America?

• 29

• 300

• 1,000

Which Native society was considered matrilineal?

• Anasazi

• Pawnee

• Navaho

Most Native Americans of the _________________________were nomadic hunters.

• the Sierra Nevada Mountains

• Southwest

• Great Plains