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6th SS Ch 2 Sec 4
6th grade social studies Chapter 2 section 4
Term | Definition |
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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 |