North American Cultures

Potlatch

• An object that people make, such as tools, pottery, or jewelry.

• A period of little or no rain.

• Having many related parts, not simple.

• Feasting and gift-giving ceremony in northwestern Native American culture.

Longhouse

• Dome house made from blocks of snow by Native Americans who lived in the Artic.

• Portable, cone-shaped home made by Native Americans who lived on the plains.

• A home made by Northeastern Native Americans, formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a round frame covered with bark or reed mats.

• Rectangular type of home built by Northeastern Native Americans, made from wood and bark or mats made of reeds.

Wigwam

• A home made by Northeastern Native Americans, formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a round frame covered with bark or reed mats.

• Rectangular type of home built by Northeastern Native Americans, made from wood and bark or mats made of reeds.

• Portable cone-shaped home made by Native Americans who lived on the plains.

• Feasting and gift-giving ceremony in northwestern Native American culture.

Which of the following lead to the multicultural nature of North America? Click ALL that apply

• Long Winters

• Harsh laws

• Colonization

• Immigration

• Big plantations

An example of non-material culture

• house

• American flag

• religious belief

• basketball

Igloo

• A home made by Northeastern Native Americans, formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a round frame covered with bark or reed mats.

• Dome house made from blocks of snow by Native Americans who lived in the Artic.

• Seperate.

• A period of little or no rain.

Scientists have learned about the Ancestral Pueblo mostly by studying

• oral history.

• written records.

• mounds.

• housing and artifacts.

In which type of structure did people of the Northeastern woodlands often live?

• longhouses

• tepees

• igloos

• pueblos

A potlatch can best be described as a

• religious ritual.

• form of government.

• social ceremony.

• family organization.

Which early Native American group is referred to as mound builders?

• Ancestral Pueblo

• Mississippians

• Great Plains people

• Inuit