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SS Indian vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exploration | going some where you have never been before |
| Columbian Exchange | Plants, people, disease, etc. bein moved from Europe/Asia to the americas (also all over the world) |
| Elder | A person older than one, often considered wiser |
| Settlement | The land on which a group of people live |
| Dwelling | The building which one lives in |
| Sustainable | Able to be upheld for a long period of time, while meeting future needs |
| Agriculture | Farming |
| Sovereignty | The right of a nation to self govern |
| Sedentary | Staying put |
| Nomadic | constantly moving |
| Colonization | a group takes over a different group |
| Indigenous | Very 1st people to live somewhere |
| Native | someone who has lived somewhere their whole life |
| Assimilation | A group of people taking on a new culture, but in doing so losing some of theirs |
| Reservation | Land set aside by the U.S government for Native tribes |
| Examples of primary sources | Letter, picture, speech, auto-biography |
| Primary source | Something that is made by a person at an event |
| Examples of Secondary sources | Textbook, biography |
| Secondary Source | Something created by people who were not at the event |
| What are the 2 migration theories | Bering Strait and Kelp Highway |
| What is the Bering strait theory? | The first native Americans walked from Russia into Alaska across a land bridge that was also an ice free corridor |
| Why does the Bering strait theory make sense | There was a deceased infant that was found, that was related directly to the siberian people, whom are direct ancestors of these people. There were also seed remains that were found which are over 10k years old. |
| Why does the Kelp Highway make sense | The coast of the Pacific was mostly ice free, which would allow people to travel by water, there also was a plentiful supply of bull Kelp which is edible for humans, which would have been a stable food source. |
| What is the Kelp Highway theory? | People got here through waterways along the Pacific coast which was an ice free corridor, and they lived off of the Kelp forests, and eventually came inland along the Columbian river. |