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WorksheetsNorth American Natives - All Regions
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 1hrs 10mins
What are the five tribes that make up the Iroquois League
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca
Narragansett, Pequot, Montauk, Deleware, and Cayuga
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek
Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo
What issues was NOT covered in the excerpt from the Iroquois Constitution.
Men were the ultimate leaders of the council.
Land was not owned but given to all.
Women were allowed to come in front of council to make decisions.
If a foreign nation comes in, it can have its own system of government but can not wage warfare against others.
Iroquois (and other Native American religion) belief that all things in nature; animals, plants, trees, rocks ... have spirits.
Animism
Dream Catcher
Wampum
Manetas
What were the homes called that the Iroquois lived in that would allow for many people and room for a fire?
Wigwams
Plank Houses
Longhouses
Pueblos
What tribe? Many groups that lived in the Eastern Woodlands of the Northeastern Region, present day New York State. This region had a wampum belt and constitution.
The Hopi
The Algonquian
The Creek
The Iroquois
What tribe? Men were the leaders, they used canoes and toboggans, lived in wigwams, and reside in the most extensive region territory - From Canadian territory below the Hudson Bay and between the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains.
The Algonquian
The Navajo
The Iroquois
The Mississippian Mound Builders
A handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. May also include sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. The circular shape represents the circle of life, with no beginning and no end. The device was known to catch the good dreams.
Dream Catcher
Wampum
Totem Poles
Travois
These belts were made of shells to commemorate formal statements. They recorded history, important events, and alliances with other tribes.
Hiawatha Wampum Belt
Council Fire Belt
Iroquois League Belt
Cedar Wigwam Belt
Two Native Americans, one from the Northeast and the other from the Northwest discuss their living arrangement. Who can argue that they have more room, better materials, and stronger foundations for their home, than the other? Choose the region and the name of their home.
Longhouses
Plank Houses
The Northeast
The Northwest
What type of farmers are the Pueblo, Navajo, and Anasazi?
Hunters and Gathers
Dry Farming & Irrigation engineers
Vegetarian Farmers
What are the five big tribes that make up the Algonquin Confederacy.
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca
Narragansett, Mohican, Montauk, Deleware, and Munsee
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek
Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo
The Algonquian word has many meanings, choose two of them.
refers to the responsibility that they give to their shaman
refers to "A place for spearing fish and eels"
refers to people that use "toboggans and canoes"
refers tot he language or to the group of tribes that speak related dialects.
What tribe gave their sachem more power and responsibility than any others? In almost all of the regions we studied we learned of the sachem. This tribe's sachem was a medicine man, traffic to the spirit world, ward off evil spirits, and was also a dream interpreter.
Iroquois
Pueblo
Tlingit
Algonquian
What kind of homes did the Navajo tribe live in?
Wickiup
Hogan
Adobe
Longhouse
The THREE SISTERS ...
Corn
sunflowers
rice
Beans
Squash
Choose the ONE role that was NOT a role of women in the Southwest Native American Tribe?
Owned Property
Made moccasins, blankets, and clothing
Traced Family Heritage
Made Pottery and Dyes
Hauled Water
Who do the Native Americans of the Cherokee tribe give credit to for creating a written language?
Sacagawea
Pocahontas
Squanto
Sequoyah
The US states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Mexico are called ...
The Four Sisters
The Four Tribes
The Four Corners
The round structures in the pueblo towns used for religious ceremonies are called ...
Mesa
Kiva
Kachina
Pueblo
A peaceful tribe, excellant farmers, lived in pueblos and used the Kachina to ask for rain.
The Hopi
The Tlingit
The Navajo
The Iroquois
If we were the archeologist studying a specific region of North America, and we stumbled upon a totem pole, weaved baskets and whale bones, what region might we be in?
Mississippi Region
Northwest
Great Plains
Southwest
Northeast
What are two advanced developments that the Northwest DID NOT have that they Southwest did?
hunting and gathering
pottery and agriculture
religion and government
What are the five big tribes of the Southeast?
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca
Narragansett, Mohican, Montauk, Deleware, and Munsee
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek
Mohican, Montauk, Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo
What reason is given to explain why blankets are a huge part of ones social status in the Northwest?
Because it was so hot in this area, natives would wrap themselves up in the blankets
Because it was so cold in this area, natives always had blankets to keep them warm
Because wealth and material items were a huge part of their lives, blankets, were considered currency
What type of house did the Northwest Tlingit people live in?
Plank House
Wigwam
Hogan
Longhouse
Archeologists can tell that the Mississippi people had a diverse trading network ...
because maps were found that showed very detailed trade routes.
because letters were found addressed to the chief that explained a detailed diverse trading network.
because items that were not natural to the area were found, like shells, obsidian, copper, and mica.
because stories have been told over generations that tell us so.
What is an "effigy mound" or "geo" form?
Mounds that were of geometric shapes and were covered with the skeletons of dead bodies.
Mounds that looked like specific animals that had flattops.
Mounds that had the Great Sun buried in them.
What do architectural historians believe the relationship is between the mound shapes and the spaces around them?
They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around cosmology, the sunrise and sunset, solstices and equinoxes and the underworld.
They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around the shape of bears, serpents, or birds.
They believe that the shape of the mound and the space revolves around the Great Sun.
Explorer who theorized that the mound builders had migrated from Mexico because they had corn and horticulture techniques.
Hernando DeSoto
Antonine Le Page du Prat
Albert Gallatin
William Bartram
A ceremony held by the Great Plains Native Americans in which they would pray to their creator for aid. It was held in the summer and men would buffalo hunt
Buffalo Dance
The Hunters Dance
The Great Creators Dance
Sun Dance
What type of homes did the Great Plains Native Americans live in as nomads?
Plank Houses
Teepees
Adobe Mounds
Wigwams
Clay used to build the pueblo houses is called?
earthenware
porcelain
hard, rock slab
adobe
This civilization constructed the largest man-made earth mound on the North American continent.
Illini Wek
Adena
Cahokia
Oneota
What happens during a potlatch?
To gain higher social status, one would give away their material belongings at a ceremony providing food and entertainment.
To gain higher social status, one would hold a ceremony in which tribe members would bring them gift, food, and entertainment.
To gain higher social status, one would hold a ceremony in which tribe members would bring them gift, food, and entertainment and slaves would be sacrificed.
Choose all of the characteristics of the Northwest Natives social system. *** Choose 3
Aristocrats inherited their status from their mothers line.
Common people could gain status by potlatches but were never seen as higher class.
It is frowned upon to not show up to a potlatch, it shows disrespect.
It was common for common people to become of high status and even become the Chief.
It was common for women to become slaves if they would not stay married to the husband their father chose.
