Pre-Colombian Vocab Practice

the first people who lived in a region

• confederacies

• indigenous

• clans

• tepees

a wooden frame covered with woven leaves and brush

• wickiups

• wigwams

• tepees

• adobe

small, dome shaped homes

• wickiups

• wigwams

• tepees

• adobe

a mixture of straw, water, and clay baked into hard bricks

• wickiups

• wigwams

• tepees

• adobe

tall cone-shaped houses made of buffalo hides stretched over wooden poles

• wickiups

• wigwams

• tepees

• adobe

large groups of tribes

• confederacies

• bands

• clans

• chiefdoms

a group of people of the same tribe who are closely connected

• tribe

• band

• clan

• chiefdom

larger groups of distant relatives

• bands

• tribes

• clans

• confederacies

a group of people connected by a common language, belief, land, and culture

• band

• clans

• chifdom

• tribes

a group of tribes under one leader

• band

• chiefdom

• tribe

• indigenous