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Native Americans
4th grade Unit 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eastern Woodlands | Made canoes for transportation; ate bear, deer and elk; lived in longhouses; had a Great Council to make decisions; surrounded by forests and rivers; made petroglyphs out of wood |
| Great Plains | Used horses for transportation; ate bison; lived in tipis and lodges; surrounded by flat land; had powwows; painted on bison hide |
| Southwest | Traveled by foot; ate corn, beans and squash; lived in pueblos; environment was hot and dry; women owned the property; painted with colored sand |
| Northwest Coast | Traveled using dugouts; ate salmon, seals, and whales; lived in longhouses; climate was mild and rainy; made totem poles |
| Southeast | Traveled by canoes and by foot; ate corn, beans, squash, deer and berries; lived in wattle and daub houses; environment had excellent soil; created pottery |
| Arctic | Traveled in kayaks and with dog sleds; ate caribou, oxen, polar bears and walruses; lived in igloos; environment was covered in permafrost; made animals masks. |
| tomahawk | a weapon like an ax |
| longhouse | a home made from wood that many families lived in |
| Three Sisters | 3 crops grown together - corn, squash, and beans |
| tipi | a temporary home made with poles and buffalo hide |
| powwow | dances and celebrations |
| Pueblo | a village made of adobe (brick dried in the sun) found in the Southwest region |
| kachina dolls | made to educate children about their religion |
| kivas | underground rooms used as meeting places for religious ceremonies |
| dugouts | canoes made from cedar wood |
| totem poles | pillars or tall wooden structures carved to tell a 3-part story about the creator |
| shaman | medicine man |
| wattle and daub | houses made with a wood frame, mud and grass |
| red chief | ruled in times of war |
| white chief | ruled in times of peace |
| Code Talkers | helped in World War I by passing messages in their Navajo language |
| igloos | homes made of blocks of ice |
| animism | belief that all natural objects have spirits |
| travois | frame made from poles and skin which were used by the Plains Indians to transport the buffalo they killed |
| Mayas | located in Central American, their language used glyphs, and they built pyramids |
| Aztecs | located in Mexico, they had 2 calendars, and their capital of Tenochtitlan had a large market |
| Incas | located in Peru, build a huge city named Machu Picchu on a mountain, and used coca leaves for medicine |
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