Northeastern Tribes

The Northeastern Woodland Indians livd near the 5 Great Lakes and lived in

• 
  tipis

• igloos

• wigwams or longhouses

• 
  adobe houses or hogan homes

What is a wall made of sharpened tree trunks to protect a village from enemies or wild animals?

• slash-and-burn

• palisade

• wampum

• council

A __________ is a group that makes laws.

• council

• wampum

• confederation

• slash-and-burn

What do historians call the strip of land between northeastern Asia and present day Alaska that was exposed during the last Ice Age?

• Bering Sea

• Land Bridge

• 
  Horums

• Bering Land Bridge

The land in the Northeast region

• was very flat and grassy, and did not have many trees.

• had many forests and bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes.

• is dry and rocky because it is mostly a desert.

• plank house and tipi

What material would these shelters be made from?

• buffalo hide

• ice logs

• tree logs and tree bark covered with deer skin

• tipi and igloo

The rivers, lakes, forests, and oceans provided the Northeastern natives with a large variety of food. They were also able to do some farming.

• True

• False

The most popular form of transportation, other than walking, used along the Northeast was canoes. Canoes were made from bark from birch trees.

• True

• False

The actual name for the Iroquois people is

• Haudenosaunee

• Cherokee

• 
  Seminoles

• Algonquins

The Iroquois term for chief is

• wampum

• 
  ramapough

• Sacagawea

• 
  sachem