Question | Answer |
Why dd the Native AMericans in the Great Basin have to move around to find food? | Farming was difficult |
What was the most important feature of the Northwest coast to the Indians | The sea |
What helped a large variety of plants to grow in the region? | wet climate |
Where did the people of the Coast obtain most of the things that they needed? | from the sea water |
What is a salmon run | when salmon come up stream to lay eggs |
What did the people do with the salmon that they did not eat right away? | preserved it by drying or smoking it |
What are examples of Tlingit technology? | cannons dams traps homes |
Describe the totem pole | big tree trunk that the indians carved and painted to represent the family |
What is potlatch | a special feast that the guest not the host receive gifts |
What was the Alaskan Native Claims settlement act? | gave the indians control of 44 million acres of their home lands in Alaska |
Why did the Tlingit have time to spend creating art and technology? | Because food was plentiful the Tlingit had time to specialize in making technology |
How were the Southwestern Native American groups different from each other? | Navajo and Apache were herders and hunters Hopi and Zuns wer mainly farmers |
Describe the Hopi land | Tall mountains, deep canyons, and steep mesas |
What is dry farming | a way of growing crops n places where there is little water |
What are Katchinas? | spirits that bring rain that visit villages for six months |
How are the Kachina dolls used in the Hopi community? | they are used to teach children in the Hopi community about the special powers of the different kachinas |
Who is Crow Mother? | mother of all kachinas |
What is the major festival that is held each year and the kachina dancers dance? | the great green corn festival |
Who is Nampeyo | a talented artist that makes pottery out of clay |
What did she think about the ancient pottery design? | she liked them more than her designs and created her own ancient pottery designs |
How did the Hopi maintain their traditional way of life | hpoi ceremonies, government, and organizations continue to exist because they continue to practice th hopi way of life |
What events changed the plains people forever? | taming of the horses |
Where did the horses of the great plains come from? | the horses had run away from their spanish owners |
What was the most important change that taming of the horse brought to the plains? | it brought change in the economy of the plains people- the plains people became expert riders breeders and trainers and could hunt more buffalo |
How did the plains indian lives change when the buffalo became the main source of food? | many stopped living at permanent settlements instead they moved form campsite to campsite to hunt another buffalo |
what is a coup stick and how is it used? | a stick named from the french work strike or jit used in battle to injure the buffalo and not kill him |
what are the 3 qualities that Lakota people admire | bringing honor to himself speaking and generosity |
What is jerky | buffalo meat cut in thin strips and dried |
what is pemmican | berries and fat added to the jerky |
How did Lakota people record special events of the year | winter counts |
How did they describe Hunif America hundres of years ago? | fertile soil, plenty of rain fall and almost completely covered by forest |
How did the Penobscot live? | they moved from place to place hunting and gathering |
Where did the Natchez people live and who were there ancestors? | descendants of the Mound Builders and ived in what is now the state of MS |
What things did most of the different Eastern Woodlands people have in common? List 5. | lfarming people living in permanent villages buit homes out of wood grew corn, squash and beans They hunted and fished They shared similar beliefs and traditions |
What was the Hodensaunee Tail? | one central route than ran thru villages of 5 peoples |
Who did the most farming in the Iriquios community? | WOMEN |
What items did the Iriqois obtai from the forest | animals for meat, maple syrup, nuts roots, vegetables, oils, fruits, berries, herbs for medicine and tea. |
What are some of the powers Iriquios women had- Name 4 | they decided how the land would be used they decided who would use the land they were leaders of the clans the women owned the longhouses and everything in them |
What was wampum and what did they use it for | bead made from shells that were strung or woven together |
what were wampum used for? | it was given as a special gift to remember a special event |
When did fighting begin to be a problem? | In 1300 when the Iriquois people began to grow |
What caused the fighting? | conflicts over hunting land |
What was the Iriquois Confederacy? | 5 separate Iriquios people banded together aka Iroquois league |
What were the Great Laws? | rules and guidelines to living together in peace |
What is a compromise? | settling a dispute by agreeing that each side will give up something |
What are the names ot he two leaders that brought peace to the Iriqois? | Deganawida and Hiawatha |
What were the boundaries of the iriquois influence by the 1700 | from the St Lawrence River to present day Tennessee in the south and to Michigan in the West. |