Chapter 2 study session

The indian peoples who got most of their food from rivers and oceans close to their homes were the ____.

• Chinooks and Makahs

• Hopis and Navajos

• Iroquois and Cherokees

• Mayas and Aztecs

Why did the Chinooks develop a special language?

• They needed a language for their religious ceremonies.

• They wanted to teach their people about their culture.

• They wanted a language in which to tell their origin stories.

• They needed a language to make trade easier.

The Makahs did not use parts of the whales___.

• for food.

• to make oil to burn as fuel.

• to make ropes and bags.

• to make totem poles.

Pueblo family members needed to store surplus food so they could ____.

• barter with wandering tribes.

• eat when there was a drought.

• feed the kachina dancers.

• survive the long, cold winter.

How did the Iroquois stop the fighting among the neighboring tribes?

• They moved to the southwestern part of the US.

• They held a potlatch ceremony and invited all the tribes.

• They formed a confederation.

• They invited all the tribes to play a game of Little War.

The Indian people who adopted ideas from the Mayas and went on to build a large empire we the ____?

• Aztecs.

• Anasazi.

• Makahs.

• Olmecs.

A ____ is a group of families that are related to one another.

• totem pole

• kiva

• clan

• band

People went to the Dalles from all over the Northwest to exchange goods, or ___.

• kitchen.

• barter.

• kachinas.

• clan.

The carved post that shows the history of a family is a ____.

• totem pole.

• city-state.

• tribe.

• buffalo.

____ are the guardian spirits of the Hopis.

• Clan

• Totem pole

• Slavery

• Kachinas