Native American (Pre-Colombian) Vocabulary

The first people who lived in a region; Example: Native Americans

• English settlers

• indigenous people

• interesting people

• Christopher Colombus

A group of tribes under one leader or chief

• chiefdom

• clans

• tribe

• band

small, dome-shaped homes

• teepees

• wickiups

• wigwams

• clans

tall, cone-shaped houses made of buffalo hides stretched over wooden poles

• indigenous

• teepees

• wigwams

• wickiups

a mixture of straw, water, and clay baked into hard bricks

• wickiups

• wigwam

• band

• adobe

larger groups of distant relatives

• confederacies

• chiefdom

• tribe

• clans

large groups of tribes

• chiefdom

• confederacies

• bands

• clans

a group of people of the same tribe who are closely connected

• band

• chiefdom

• indigenous

• tribe

a group of people connected by a common language, belief, land, and culture

• band

• tribe

• chiefdom

• clans

a wooden frame covered with woven leaves and brush

• wigwam

• wickiups

• teepees

• adobe