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Native Americans
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| flora | the plants of a particular region |
| fauna | the animals of a particular region |
| nomad | a person who moves from place to place in search of food (hunter-gatherer) |
| Eastern Woodlands | a cultural region in North America east of the Mississippi River, west of the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes, and north of the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Slash and burn farming | a method of farming, in which vegetation is cut down and burned in order to clear the fields for farming |
| Three Sisters | the primary crops of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, which were corn, pole bans, and squash |
| Cherokee | a member of the Native American people, who lived in the foothills and mountains of South Carolina |
| Catawba | a member of the Native American people, who lived along the rivers of the Piedmont region of South Carolina |
| Yemassee | member of the Native American people, who came from Spanish Florida (Georgia), but moved to the coastal areas of South Carolina |
| Palisade | a fence of pointed stakes that was 12 to 20 feet high used for protection |
| Wigwams | a type of circular type house used by the Catawba and Yemassee; erected by heating and bending poles toward a center point, tying the poles together, and then covering the frame with cedar, cypress, or pine bark |
| Wattle and Daub | a type of circular type house used by the Cherokee and Yemassee; it had thick walls made out of a mixture of grass and clay, called daub, and a roof made out of bark and branches, called wattle |
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