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WorksheetsHSS Coastal California Natives
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 3hrs 0mins
Check the image that shows a Native American weir:
Check the tribes that lived in the Northern Coastal Region of California.
The Yurok
The Chumash
The Hupa
The Pomo
The Gabrielino
Check the tribes that are from the Southern Coastal region of California.
The Yurok
The Chumash
The Kumeyaay
The Gabrielino
The Pomo
Use details from the lesson and text to describe the Chumash way of government. Make sure you use complete sentences and explain your details!
Check the boxes of the natural resources that tribes like the Yurok had in the Northern Coastal region.
Large redwood planks
Abalone
Salmon
Reeds and grasses
Willow branches
Trade was important to the Native Americans of the Coastal region because:
they could spy on other tribes.
they could trade items that they had for things that they could not get from the resources around them.
they would trade items they already had for newer ones,
this statement is false; trade was not important to the Coastal region tribes.
Instead of dollars and cents, Native American tribes of the Northern Coastal region would have used which of these as money?
figs
grasses
coast redwoods
shells
Compare and contrast the Gabrielinos and Chumash tribe cultures according to our lessons and details from the text (pg. 71-72). Remember to say how they are the same (compare) and different (contrast).
Check the boxes of the natural resources that tribes like the Chumash would have in the Southern Coastal Region.
Salmon
Willow branches
Abalone
Tar
Large Redwood planks
Why was tar a useful natural resource in the Southern Coastal Region?
Tar could be used for cooking.
Tar was used for the shoes of the Native Americans.
Tar was used to make canoes and baskets waterproof.
Tar was used to make gum.
Check all of the statements that are true about the Luiseno and the Kumeyaay tribes.
Both tribes held ceremonies before hunting and collecting their harvest.
Both tribes believed in a spirit called Qua-o-ar, or "Giver of Life."
Both tribes lived south of the Gabrielino tribe.
Both tribes lived north of the Chumash.
Both tribes set fires to the land in order to help burn off old brush and make room for new plants to grow better.
Imagine you are a member of a tribe in the Northern Coastal region. What would be something you should trade to get from a tribe in the Southern Coastal region that you don't already have?
