Cabins made with a wooden frame of curved poles and large pieces of tree bark and/or cattail reeds as walls.

Houses made to house several tribal families.

A person's style of speaking spoken in a region or by a group of people.

Sacred animals that symbolized a clan.

Decorative clothing.

When one traces their family through only their mother's side of the family, rather than through both their mother and father's sides.

A sacred gathering that began in the 1800s.

A French explorer who is believed to have been the first European explorer in Ohio.

A settlement of people who have left their country to settle in a specific area still owned by their home country. 

An American Indian chief of the Seneca tribe who lived during the 18th century.

A group of regular citizens trained to fight.

A conflict from 1754-1763 between Great Britain, France, and American Indian tribes.

An 18th century conflict that spanned almost every continent and most European countries. The French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.

The treaty that ended the French and Indian War. France turned over their trading and diplomatic rights to the British for the region east of the Mississippi River. It gave Great Britain control of most of North America. 

Uprisings of American Indian tribes over the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763.

An Ottawa chief that was one of the major leaders during Pontiac's War.

A proclamation from the king of Great Britain that stopped all colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.