Indigenous Americans & Geographic Regions

Native Americans

• a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America

• people who came to the Americas in the last twenty years

• all people who currently live in America

• term that applies only to pre-historic Americans

indigenous

• not native to a particular place

• buffalo herds

• native to a particular place

• a portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by North American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions

Teepees show how natives adapted to geography in the...

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest

• Far North

People who move from place to place usually following a food source are called? 

• Adaptive
• Nomads
• Modification
• Indiginous 

This group of Native Americans used longhouses and wigwams for housing

• Southeast Native Americans

• Northeast Native Americans

Which statement best describes a conclusion that can be made about the map?

• Indigenous people lived mostly on rivers for trade with other cultures.

• Indigenous people settled across many landscapes in the Americas.

• Indigenous people first lived in South America, but slowly migrated north.

• Indigenous people fought to control for territory in all regions.

What is the main reason that various cultures of Native Americans had different types of homes?

• Homes were designed to protect families from wild animals.

• The number of people was different from tribe to tribe.

• Homes were built from natural resources that were found nearby.

• Native Americans built their homes to look like the homes of European settlers.

What does the term nomadic mean?

• People who frequently move around following their primary source of food.

• People who live in teepees.

• People who wear little clothing because the weather is warm.

• People who eat seals, shellfish, and salmon

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.