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first americans
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| Question | Answer | Section | Section | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What did growing food let the Indians do that they couldn't do before? | Settle in one place | 1.3 | ||
| What helped historians group Indians into cultural regions? | artifacts | 1.3 | ||
| How did the Indians view nature? | as a gift that should be taken care of and not taken for granted | 1.4 | ||
| Describe what it means when the Indians say each person had to maintain the balance with a spirit. | Believed each part of nature had a spirit and expressed their belief in different ways | 1.4 | ||
| How are the American Indians different from the Europeans? | Believed land could not be claimed or owned as private property | 1.4 | ||
| What kind of land did the Great plains region have? | Eastern-water and softer soil Western-short dense grass | 1.10 | ||
| What was he Great Plains amin source of food? | Buffalo | 1.10 | ||
| How did they catch buffalo? | -ambushed when buffalo came for a drink -trapped buffalo in short walls that formed a V and lead the animals to a cliff where they fell down to the Indians | 1.10 | ||
| What did Buffalo provide? | -buffalo hides turned into shields,waterproof containers,robes,bedding -buffalo hair sinew made bowstrings and ropes -buffalo skins made the cone(tipi) houses | 1.10 | ||
| Describe the region the people in the eastern woodlands lived in. | dense forest, many lakes and streams | 1.11 | ||
| What did the forest provide for the Indians? | food (hunted deer,bear) fresh fruits(nuts berries) trapped fish, beavers,and birds | 1.11 | ||
| Why did they build their homes near water? | -water ways provided fish and drinking water -easier to travel over water ways | 1.11 | ||
| Describe what their homes where made out of. | Log-framed houses about 20 feet wide and 100 ft.long -several families lived in different sections of the long house | 1.11 | ||
| What was a woman's job in this cultural region? | -farmed crops (squash, corn,beans,) --made clothing (deerskin skirts,capes,moccasins) -scraped corn kettles with bone tools -fall planted sunflowers, tobacco,many different vegetables | 1.11 |
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