Indigenous People of the Americas

1- ................................. are called first people in Canada or Native Americans in the US.

• Indigenous people

• Nabateans

2- Indigenous people were called Indians because the first European explorers thought they were in the East Indies when they landed in the Americas.

• True

• False

3- In the Arctic regions of far North, the ................................ tribes lived by hunting in the polar region and fishing in the icy waters.

• Salish

• Inuit

4- The Northwest coastal tribes, including .............................. tribes of British Columbia lived from fishing and gathering the plentiful shelfish.

• Salish

• Sioux

5- On plains, the tribes included ............................... and .......................................who hunted buffalo as they migrated across the grasslands of the Great plains.

• Sioux and Cheyenne

• Apache and Navajo

6- In the Southwest,...................................and.................................... tribes lived in the dry areas of Arizona New Mexico and to the South in Mexico.

• The Apache, Navajo

• The Sioux, Cheyenne

7- In the Pacific Northwest, they used the .................................... of coastal fir trees to make fibers and material for shelter.

• bark

• stone

8- In the Southwest, the native people lived in a semi-nomadic pattern of movement to follow herds of buffalo.

• True

• False

9- In earlier centuries, people built ............................... of stone in cities carved into rock in the dry climate of it Sonoran Desert.

• Pueblos

• Canoes

10- When indigenous people came in contact with European settlers, they sometimes became ill and died.

• True

• False