Native American Vocabulary

a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 BC

the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs

ancient Native cultures that built ceremonial and burial mounds

above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe that were built by Native Americans of the southwestern United States

images of ancestors or animal spirits; often carved onto tall, wooden poles by Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest

cone-shaped shelters made of buffalo skins used by Native Americans in the Plains region

a political confederation of five northeastern Native American nations of the Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, and Onondaga that made decisions concerning war and peace

a humpbacked shaggy-haired wild ox native to the Great Plains in North America. 

a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob. Early version of corn.