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6th SS Ch 2 Sec 4
6th grade social studies Chapter 2 section 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Southwest Landforms | Mesas, canyons, cliffs and mountains |
| Southwest weather | HOT summers, bitterly cold winters. Weeks without Snow or rain |
| Southwest tribes | Hopi and Zuni |
| Hopi and Zuni tribes were knows as the | Pueblo People |
| The Pueblo people were | Farmers |
| Pueblo farmers, when possible, stored surplus | Water |
| Pueblo people grew | Cotton for weaving |
| Nomadic tribe that moved into the Southwest about 1025 AD to the Four Corners area | Navajo |
| 4 Corners states that is historical Navajo Lands | Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico |
| Hopi and Zuni people lived in | Little wood homes made out of stones, mud or adobe |
| Sun dried bricks make of straw and clay | Adobe |
| Cone shaped, wood framed homes covered in mud or adobe | Hogans |
| Which tribe of people lived in hogans? | Navajo People |
| Navajo religion - believed in more than one god | Polytheistic |
| Religious Leaders and healers | Medicine People |
| Navajo people sang songs or chants believed to have | Healing Powers |
| Chief was a religious leader who made the rules and handed out the punishments | Hopi |
| Tribe in the West, lived part of the year in the Great Basin and part in Wyoming mountains | Shoshone |
| Shoshone hunted | Small Animals and buffalo in mountains |
| Shoshone lived in shelters of | Brush |
| Lived on Columbia Plateau | Nez Perce |
| Idaho, Oregon and Washington | Columbia Plateau |
| Nez Perce food was this fish from the rivers | Salmon |
| Nez Perce build spears for | Fishing |
| Lived in Southern California | Chumash |
| Chumash food | Birds, fish and acorns |
| Chumash lived in | Dome shaped shelters |