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Native American
28 Facts - First 8 - 12/19/14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Iroquois | Famous for their League of Five Nations and Society of False Faces |
| Inca | Lived in Peru and built thousands of miles of roads over rocky land for protection. |
| Pueblo | Used special rooms called kivas for religious ceremonies and believed in spirits called kachinas. |
| Aztec | Warlike and practiced human sacrifices to please their gods. |
| Algonquin | Believed in the "Great Spirit of Manitou" and memory scrolls. |
| Three Sisters | Special name for squash, corn and beans |
| Native Americans | All tribes grew maize (corn) for food. |
| Inca | Used quipu as a special way of writing by arranging knotted and colored strings. |
| Kivas | Rooms for special ceremonies. |
| Kachinas | Spirits the Pueblo believed in. |
| Quipu | Special way of writing by arranging knotted and colored strings. |