Native Americans and Cultural Regions

Which answer would be the best example of "indigenous?"

• People from California living in Oregon.

• French Canadians in Montreal, Canada.

• The North American Grizzly Bear in Alaska.

• Japanese Kudzu vines in the Deep South of the US.

If I am migrating someplace, I am...

• moving from the place I currently live to go elsewhere.

• arriving home from work.

• building a new home in a new town.

• immigrating.

How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?

• They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge.

• They sailed from Polynesia in large canoes.

• They paddled across the Bering Strait from Siberia in kayaks.

• They rowed from England in sturdy wooden boats.

To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to

• develop their own religions.

• adapt to their environment.

• build houses out of wood.

• speak the same language.

Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from

• buffalo herds.

• their own farms.

• desert plants.

• rivers and the sea.

Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering

• lots of rabbit and salmon.

• large supplies of acorns.

• limited food and water.

• crops of corn, beans, and squash.

Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building

• thick-walled adobe houses.

• movable tipis made of buffalo skins.

• wooden houses out of cedar logs.

• homes clustered around mounds.

The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of the

• Northwest Coast.

• Plateau Region.

• Eastern Woodlands.

• Great Plains.

Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for

• clearing the forest for farms.

• planting and harvesting crops.

• building longhouses for shelter.

• trading with nearby villages.

Native Americans in the Southeast built

• adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas.

• villages of longhouses in the forest near streams.

• towns clustered around large earthen mounds.

• underground pit houses beside major rivers.