8th Grade 1st Peoples of North America

People (in the past or present) whose ancestors have lived for a long time in the land that is now the United States.

• Indigenous peoples of the United States
• Hunter-Gatherers

• European settlers of America
• Recent immigrants to the United States

All the land in North America, Central America, and South America, as well as the islands in the Caribbean.

• Mesoamerica

• the Americas and Europe
• the Americas
• North and South America only

An area where people have similar ways of living and traditions.

• Community
• Cultural Region

• Society
• Neighborhood

People who live by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants.

• Farmers
• Hunter-gatherers
• Settled communities
• Nomads

Native to a particular region. This word is most often used to describe people whose ancestors have lived in an area for a very long time.

• Indigenous
• Colonial
• Settler
• Local

The region that is now Mexico and Central America.

• Caribbean Islands
• Andean Region
• Mesoamerica
• Amazon Basin

(about 800 CE – about 1300 CE) An American Indian civilization in what is now the southeastern United States.

• Navajo Nation
• Mississippian culture
• Ancestral Puebloans
• Hohokam culture

Not settled in one place.

• settled
• stationary
• fixed
• nomadic

(about 1 CE – about 1300 CE) An American Indian civilization in what is now the southwestern United States.

• Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi)
• Hohokam
• Mogollon
• Mississippian